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Siddarth Puri
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Articles by Siddarth Puri
A Regretful Archetype
In this week's edition of dueling reviews, Siddarth Puri argues that No Regret is predictable, ineffective and worst of all, typical of the "queer film" genre that is lacking in originality these days.
Published on: 8/8/2008
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Age of Annoyance
Uninteresting characters and too-obvious symbolism of Hindu mythology reduces The Age of Shiva to another unfortunate portrayal of India as a foreign, exotic land.
Published on: 8/8/2008
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Sayonara Saawariya
Despite all the talk around Sony and Saawariya, perhaps it was for good reason that Om Shanti Om destroyed it in the box office last weekend. At least Rani Mukherjee was there, gyrating and helping Siddarth Puri dance the bad thoughts away.
Published on: 11/16/2007
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Silent Seduction
Loo Zihan is the writer, co-director, and actor of Solos, a Singaporean film about a young teenager and his illicit relationship with his male teacher -- all told without a single line of dialogue.
Published on: 11/16/2007
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Empty Calories
Nina's Heavenly Delights dazzles with its sensual portrayal of food -- but without any romantic substance to carry the film, the hunger pains eventually take its toll and leave our writer quite cranky.
Published on: 8/10/2007
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Toxic Memories
Zero Chou's Spider Lilies explores the relationship between grief and memory -- but poor development and obscure delivery leads to cinematic poison.
Published on: 8/10/2007
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Viva la revolución!
Orgies, nudity, kitsch, and prostitutes -- what could possibly go wrong?
Published on: 5/11/2007
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