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Ugly (2013): Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's dark tale of wicked urban escapades

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A raw chronicle of human enterprise A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Tejas Nair Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews U...

The Path of Zarathustra - A Film by Oorvazi Irani

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Poster Release - The First Look of The Path of Zarathustra A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature The Path of Zarathustra - Movie Poster ...

Barefoot to Goa - A Brief Character Analysis

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Barefoot to Goa (2013) A fter a long wait, the makers of the indie Barefoot to Goa have come up w...

The Catalyst – A Kannada Short film by Vaishnavi Sundar

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A story traversing moral dilemmas that create incongruence between good and bad A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Vaishnavi Su...

Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014) - Indian filmmaker Ravi Kumar's social commentary on India of the 1980s

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A scathing attack on crony capitalism A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Coen Brothers Film Festival (11th – 13th December 2014): A showcase of the finest works of the filmmaking duo of Joel and Ethan Coen

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Joel and Ethan Coen - The Coen Brothers C inephiles in the capital as well as the surrounding ar...

No Country for Old Men (2007): Joel and Ethan Coen's genre-transcending psychological labyrinth with existential overtones

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A masterful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's grand literary vision A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featur...

For Cinema With Love: Invitation for Guest Articles (Nov - Dec '14)

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I am happy to share with you that A POTPOURRI OF VESTIGES has recently crossed the landmark of 1200,000 hits. 2014 is turning out to b...

A dozen reasons why Barefoot to Goa needs to be shown in theatres across India

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A fter many months of preparation, the makers of Barefoot to Goa have come up with an innov...

Interstellar (2014): Christopher Nolan's Sci-Fi extravaganza with strong intellectual and emotional appeal

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Matthew McConaughey is the pivot around which the movie revolves A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb...

Game of Thrones - Most Memorable Characters Part II: Tyrion Lannister

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Imagine courtesy of Highreshdwallpapers.com " When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not p...

Game of Thrones - Most Memorable Characters Part I: Eddard Stark

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Imagine courtesy of Wallpapers.fansshare.com "Know the men who follow you and let them know yo...

Gone Girl (2014): David Fincher's satire on marital infidelity, media trespassing, and capitalism

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Part dark comedy, part murder mystery lifted by Pike's performance A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured i...

Happy New Year (2014): Farah Khan's hackneyed orgy of excess

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A triumph of profligacy over artistic freedom A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

The Judge (2014): David Dobkin's flawed but entertaining take on the father-son relationship dyad

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A syrupy cocktail fizzing with histrionics A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

5th Annual Anime Convention (17th – 19th October 2014) - The biggest Japanese pop culture celebration in India

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A nime convention is the biggest Japanese pop culture celebration in India. In its 5 th avatar, sch...

Maps to the Stars (2014): Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's scathing satire on Hollywood

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Julianne Moore as the washed-up Havana Segrand is a sight to behold A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IM...

Haider (2014): Indian filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj's final chapter in Shakespeare trilogy

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A powerful socio-political commentary on Kashmir of the 1990s A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic R...

Finding Fanny (2014): Homi Adajania's meditation on life and death

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A perfect amalgamation of mainstream and offbeat cinema A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic ...

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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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