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Home / Archive for June 2015

Why Bombay Velvet cannot be deemed a cinematic disaster?

Murtaza Ali Khan 9:43:00 PM 4 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A nurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet was destined to be a commercial failure from the word go. Giv...
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Live Lodgycal Drive: Demystifying the Renault Lodgy

Murtaza Ali Khan 5:06:00 PM Add Comment Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I n 1984, Renault unleashed the idea of an MPV by delivering the first car in the world that coul...
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Kangana Ranaut set to play Rani Laxmi Bai in Ketan Mehta's upcoming flick

Murtaza Ali Khan 4:09:00 PM Add Comment Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he word 'Queen' (translated to 'Rani' in Hindi) has certainly become synonymous ...
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Renault Live Lodgycal Drive: An enchanting holiday in a Shangri-La-esque haven named Goa

Murtaza Ali Khan 4:39:00 PM 8 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Team Cartoosh I t’s not every day that one is presented with an opportunity to relax in a Shangri-La...
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LGBT Film Festival (25th – 27th June 2015): Celebrating the LGBT Pride Month

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he Embassy of the United States of America in collaboration with Cinedarbaar is organizing a two ...
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Nikhil Advani's "Katti Batti" (2015) starring Kangana Ranaut and Imran Khan: Movie Trailer Review

Murtaza Ali Khan 4:29:00 AM 4 Comments Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he last few years have been remarkable for Kangana Ranaut. After being officially crowned as the &q...
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American director Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" (1972) based on a bestselling novel by Mario Puzo about the fictional Corleone crime family, starring Marlon Brando: An institution in itself for film students the world over

Murtaza Ali Khan 5:28:00 PM Add Comment Edit
A haunting portrait of organized crime, mafia rivalry in the 1950s New York A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By  Niladri Ranjit Chak...
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Jurassic World (2015): Colin Trevorrow's visual feast for action-adventure enthusiasts

Murtaza Ali Khan 3:57:00 AM 6 Comments Edit
An adventurous journey to the Spielbergian world of chaos and carnage A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali ...
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Bollywood Cult Favorites: The HT Brunch masterlist

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image Courtesy: www.hindustantimes.com/ There are films that are dubbed as instant classics to beg...
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Dil Dhadakne Do (2015): Zoya Akhtar's insipid family drama about an upper class Punjabi business family

Murtaza Ali Khan 9:50:00 PM 6 Comments Edit
A cliched family affair targeted towards the Anglophone urban audience A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali ...
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Revolver Rani (2014): Sai Kabir's political satire featuring a tour de force performance from Kangana Ranaut

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A swashbuckling, tongue-in-cheek Western about an indigenous cowgirl A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali ...
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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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