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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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   ...
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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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