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Home / Archive for March 2015

The Trends in Marathi Cinema

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Sunita Lancaster Image courtesy of  mrane.com W hen most people think of Indian c...
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Don't Look Now (1973): British filmmaker Nicholas Roeg's masterpiece in allusive storytelling

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Filmmaking as a form of intellectual and emotional expression as well as visual art A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Tan...
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Seven reasons why it's essential to watch Praveen Morchhale's "Barefoot to Goa" this summer

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Award-winning indie to release in cinemas across India on April 10  A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Post By Swati R B arefoot...
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The Catalyst - A Kannada short film by Vaishnavi Sundar based on a short story by Punjabi writer Kartar Singh Duggal

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A poignant tale that questions morality and its changing relevance in the present times A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza A...
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NH10 (2015): Navdeep Singh's social commentary on the plight of women in a male dominated society

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A taut crime thriller sparked up by Anushka Sharma's performance A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in  IM...
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India's Daughter: Leslee Udwin's controversial documentary on the infamous 2012 Delhi gang rape

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Why the Indian government should reconsider its decision to ban the BBC documentary A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image courtes...
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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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