A Potpourri of Vestiges

Midnight in Paris (2011): Woody Allen's ode to the city of love, and its most celebrated denizens of the past

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Mumbai Diaries (2010): Kiran Rao's Treat for the Eclectic Viewers

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Seven Samurai (1954): Akira Kurosawa's Epic Masterpiece

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The Hindu: My five

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Dear Readers, The following is an excerpt from my article that was published in the Indian National Daily, The Hindu. The article...

Viridiana (1961): Luis Bunuel's Case Study on Bourgeoisie Plight and its Underlining Causes

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Stanley Kubrick's Psychedelic Masterpiece starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

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Kubrick's treatise on fidelity and marriage A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Re...

Yojimbo (1961): Akira Kurosawa's Feast for the Action lovers

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Toshirô Mifune shines in the epic role of a crafty ronin named Sanjuro A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IM...

Rashomon (1950): Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's treatise on the subjectivity of truth

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Scarface (1983): Brian De Palma's Unforgiving Portrayal of American Drug Mafia of the 1980s

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Al Pacino delivers a tour de force starring as Tony Montana A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic ...

The Maltese Falcon (1941): John Huston's Noir masterpiece featuring a tour de force from Humphrey Bogart

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About Author

Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over 10 years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He regularly contributes to The Hindu and The Sunday Guardian. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to publications like DailyO, Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He regularly appears as a guest panelist on the various television channels and is also associated with radio.

His education spans science, technology, mass communication, and management. But cinema remains his first love. His all-time favorite movie-makers are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Bunuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. He can be reached at murtaza@apotpourriofvestiges.com / murtaza.jmi@gmail.com. He tweets at @MurtazaCritic.

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