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Bombay Velvet: First Official Poster Analysis

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Bombay Velvet (2015 ) - By Anurag Kashyap T he first official poster of Bombay Velvet ( the full...

Cinema and Travel: Are they anyway connected?

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W ell, traveling is what almost every individual loves. It is quite normal that people take days off from their regular and busy schedules...

All Time Best 100 Movies: Author's Pick 2015

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A Compilation of Favorite Films from Across the Globe A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature 2 014 turned out to be an exceptional year...

Black History Month Film Festival (5th – 7th February 2015): Remembering the important people and events in the history of the African diaspora

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image courtesy of wsbtv.com T he Embassy of the United States of America in collaboration with Cin...

The Theory of Everything (2014): English filmmaker James Marsh's biopic about the celebrated cosmologist Stephen Hawking

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A triumph as a drama that fails to impress as a biopic A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Tejas Nair Featured in IMDb Critic...

Force Majeure (2014): Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund's treatise on familial paradoxes

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An artistic depiction of a tiny story about family dynamics A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Tejas Nair Featured in IMDb C...

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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 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 @apotofvestiges.