December 2014 - A Potpourri of Vestiges

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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 ...

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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.