July 2013 - A Potpourri of Vestiges

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Bandit Queen (1994) - Film Analysis

Murtaza Ali Khan 9:37:00 PM 3 Comments Edit

A horrific account of the indomitable Phoolan Devi A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Mansi Dutta Featured in IMDb Critic R...

Life after Game Of Thrones

Murtaza Ali Khan 9:25:00 PM 4 Comments Edit

A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Every now and again a TV drama will come along that we’re unable to take our eyes off. When ...

Lootera (2013): Indian filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane's romantic period drama starring Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha

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A must watch romantic drama for cinema lovers A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Siddhartha Gandhi Featured in IMDb Critic Re...

Tom Cruise: A Hollywood Phenomenon

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A spotlight on the actor's career on the occasion of his 51st birthday A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Alex Smith ...

The K File (2012): A Short Film By Oorvazi Irani

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A daring, ambitious film based on a story by Farrukh Dhondy A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali T he K File is a ...

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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.