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Home / Archive for October 2014

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 ...
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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 ...
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5th Annual A​nime 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...
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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...
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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 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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