December 2012 - A Potpourri of Vestiges

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Cinema Top 100: A list of all time favorite films from the world of cinema

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Note: This post is a part of our Best of the Best Blogathon C inema is a way of life: for...

Indie Watch: A spotlight on three independent films from across the globe

Murtaza Ali Khan 11:48:00 PM 4 Comments Edit

A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Whenever we talk of the 21st century cinema it's imperative to talk about independent filmmakers. Bu...

Best of the Best Blogathon: December 2012 to January 2013

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Complete List of Reviews Blogathon Logo The year 2K13 will soon be dawning upon us. And the ti...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) - The first installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy

Murtaza Ali Khan 2:49:00 PM 8 Comments Edit

A worthy prequel to The Lord of the Rings A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Talaash (2012): India filmmaker Reema Kagti's flawed but gripping suspense thriller with a psychological bent

Murtaza Ali Khan 11:24:00 PM 17 Comments Edit

Aamir and Nawazuddin shine in police procedural A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Review...

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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 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.