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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 

Spring. Seeing Hong Kong again: Review by Siraj Syed How do you define a city? Or, rather, how do you re-define a city, after two years of a pandemic? Covid had varying casualties across the world,...

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aNEk, Review: Many a dull moment Many, several or various are the one-word translations of the title. The reference is to the various cultural and ethnic identities that inhabit India. This is...

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Haemolymph-The Invisible Blood, Review: Mumbai Police’s worst kept secret Some real-life stories have been turned into good films, some have not. Haemolymph belongs to the latter category. Had we...

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Tikatbari
AB Films Entertainment
Adiman Films
ND9 Studio
Saurabh More
Riyaz Anwar
Ruchira Jadhav
Rohit Kokate
Neelam Kulkarni
Datta Jadhav
Sayli Bandkar
Mujtaba Aziz Nazan (son of famous Qawwal
late Aziz Nazan)
Nasir Faraaz
Mumtaz Aziz Nazan (wife of Aziz Nazan)
Khwaja qawwali
Rohan Mapuskar
Avinash Sonawane
Urdu-speaking Muslims
Sudarshan Gamare
Wahid DeenMohammed Shaikh
Anjuman-e-Islam school
Shahid Azmi
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)

Adrushya, Review: Invisible man meets blind twins In the last two decades, Marathi films have thrown-up some real gems. They have also not fought shy of experimenting with both form and content. We...

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Ajay Kumar Singh
Rekha Singh
Amar Mohile
Sanjay Ingle
S.S. Lal
Syed Shahid Lal
Sanjay Bhadane
Shravani Abhang
Ashok Palwe
Shyam Bhimsariya
Kavita Tripathi
Garvit Singh
Pawan Kumar
Nikhil Kumar Singh
Vishal Kumar Singh
Nirmal Jani
Hemangi Surve
Harshada Patil
Pranjali Kanzarkar
Dipinti Bhobaskar
Anant Jog
Usha Nadkarni
Saurabh Gokhale
Pushkar Jog
Manjari Fadnnis
Kabir Lal
Nikhil Katare
Chetan Kinjalkar
progressive blindness
Maharashtrian
Uttarakhand
Marathi
Los ojos de Julia (Spanish; Julia’s Eyes; 2010)
Wait Until Dark (1967)

Dhaakad, Review: Kan-gana Ran-aut-do Charlize Theron? Whenever director Razneesh ‘Razy’ Ghai shouted action on the sets of this film, he must have meant either of two things: A. Kangana Ranaut,...

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Dhruv Ghanekar
Sneha Khanwalkar
Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Badshah
She’s on fire
Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Tetsuo Nagata
National Film Awards
five Filmfare Awards
Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list
Padma Shri
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi
Rani Laxmibai 2
Rinish Ravindra
Razneesh ‘Razy Ghai
Rajiv Menon
Charlize Theron
ATOMIC BLONDE
Kangana Ranaut
Arjun Rampla
Razneesh 'Razy' Ghai
Sharib Hashmi
Yaadon Ki Baaraat
budapest
Romania
Central Europe
Central India
Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh
Sohagpur
coal foelds
Human trafficking
Divya Dutta
Saswata Chatterji