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Queimada (1969): Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo’s political satire featuring a tour de force from Marlon Brando

Murtaza Ali Khan 11:18:00 PM 10 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews Queimada (1969)   -   By Gillo Pontecorvo ...
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A Timeless Journey from New York to Wasseypur

Murtaza Ali Khan 9:51:00 PM 11 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I t seldom happens that a movie nominated for 10 Oscars ends up winning none. One such movie that ...
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012): A Tedious Exercise in Mediocrity

Murtaza Ali Khan 3:16:00 AM 25 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   The Dark Knight Rises (2012)   -   By Chr...
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Europa (1991): The Fitting Finale to Danish Auteur Lars von Trier's Europe Trilogy

Murtaza Ali Khan 12:15:00 PM 12 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Europa (1991)   -   By Lars von Trier ...
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Rajesh Khanna Retrospective: A Tribute to Indian Cinema's Greatest Superstar

Murtaza Ali Khan 7:51:00 PM 10 Comments Edit
Our Tribute to Indian Cinema's Greatest Superstar: Rajesh Khanna I t’s a very sad day for Indian Cinema. The nation has lost it...
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Tarantino's Django Unchained: A Homage to Sergio Corbucci

Murtaza Ali Khan 5:20:00 PM 13 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Update T his Christmas is going to be a very special one for Quentin Tarantino fans and even more special fo...
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Ra.One (2011): SRK's seem-less transition from super-stardom to superherodom

Murtaza Ali Khan 4:29:00 PM 5 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews   Ra. One (2011 )   -   By Anubhav Sinha ...
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Best Movies of 1988 - The Year I Made Contact: Blogathon

Murtaza Ali Khan 11:39:00 PM 17 Comments Edit
This special feature  by   A Potpourri of Vestiges   is a part of the blogathon ,   The Year I Made Contact ,  hosted by   Movie Waffler ...
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The Dark Knight Rises - Exclusive Featurette

Murtaza Ali Khan 4:16:00 PM 6 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Update For those of you who can't wait for The Dark Knight Rises to hit the theaters, we have bro...
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Gangs of Wasseypur: Part II Trailer

Murtaza Ali Khan 8:48:00 PM 4 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Update In order to cash in on the great success of Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur, the makers have...
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The Turin Horse (2011): Hungarian Master Filmmaker Béla Tarr’s Swan Song

Murtaza Ali Khan 2:52:00 AM 12 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IMDb Critic  Reviews The Turin Horse (2011 )   - Original Title...
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Vote of Thanks: A Potpourri of Vestiges hits the 100K counter

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It gives us immense pleasure to announce that today  A Potpourri of Vestiges  has hit the 100K mark. We would like to start by thank...
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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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