A Potpourri of Vestiges

Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over seven years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He is also the Films Editor at the New York City-based publication Cafe Dissensus and regularly contributes to The Hindu, The Sunday Guardian, DailyO, and National Herald. He was previously a columnist at Huff Post. He has also contributed to online publications like Newslaundry, The Quint, Dear Cinema, Desimartini and Jamuura Blog. He is also on the guest panel for live discussions on the television news channel NewsX.

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 @apotofvestiges.

Chakravyuh (2012): Indian filmmaker Prakash Jha's political thriller based on the Indian Naxalite movement

Twixt (2011): American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s bizarre yet commendable exercise in pretence

Cosmopolis (2012): Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's nightmarish sneak peek into the hyperreal

Killing Them Softly (2012): Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik's parable on the decline of American Capitalism

Fire in Babylon (2010): English filmmaker Stevan Riley's documentary based on the dramatic rise of the West Indian cricket during the 1970s/80s

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's intellectual extravaganza

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