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Home / Archive for February 2015

Birdman (2014): Alejandro González Iñárritu's Oscar-winning film featuring a tour de force from Michael Keaton

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A meditation on the meaning of art, success and failure, life and death, and human existence A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murt...
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Lucy (2014): French filmmaker Luc Besson's solid Action flick with a weak Sci-Fi element

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What could have been a path breaking cinema ends up being just another good film A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Amrit ...
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Badlapur (2015): Indian filmmaker Sriram Raghavan's unflinching tale of revenge with an underlying moral dilemma

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Part psychological thriller, part character study that entertains and makes us think A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza...
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ICC World Cup 2015: Cricket, Movies, Food, Fun and Frolic

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The quadrennial clash between cricket and cinema A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature P eople in India are crazy about two things: c...
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"'Muffler wala' is synonymous with Arvind Kejriwal" says the Pune-based filmmaker who ran the AAP's 'Sardi' campaign

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A candid conversation with filmmaker Abdullah Siddique A Potpourri of Vestiges Exclusive Abdullah Siddique:  The brain behind AAP...
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Banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's Taxi wins the Golden Bear at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival

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A singular triumph of artistic freedom and human determination A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A Still from Jafar Panahi's Taxi...
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Barefoot to Goa: Social Media "PROUD VOLUNTEER" Campaign - Press Release

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Shamitabh (2015): R. Balki's satire on the Hindi Film industry aka "Bollywood"

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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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