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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...

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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