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Hollywood vs Bollywood: A comparative study of the two Tinseltowns

Murtaza Ali Khan 12:58:00 AM 5 Comments Edit

A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature The name "Bollywood" is a portmanteau derived from Bombay - the former name for Mumbai, Indi...

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Wes Anderson's bitter-sweet fable about solitude featuring a delectable performance from Ralph Fiennes

Murtaza Ali Khan 11:55:00 PM 31 Comments Edit

A piquant cocktail fizzing with the resplendence of the extremes A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in ...

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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.