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Why Bombay Velvet cannot be deemed a cinematic disaster?

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A nurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet was destined to be a commercial failure from the word go. Giv...

Live Lodgycal Drive: Demystifying the Renault Lodgy

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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...

Kangana Ranaut set to play Rani Laxmi Bai in Ketan Mehta's upcoming flick

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he word 'Queen' (translated to 'Rani' in Hindi) has certainly become synonymous ...

Renault Live Lodgycal Drive: An enchanting holiday in a Shangri-La-esque haven named Goa

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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...

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 ...

Nikhil Advani's "Katti Batti" (2015) starring Kangana Ranaut and Imran Khan: Movie Trailer Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he last few years have been remarkable for Kangana Ranaut. After being officially crowned as the &q...

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

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A haunting portrait of organized crime, mafia rivalry in the 1950s New York A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Niladri Ranjit Chak...

Jurassic World (2015): Colin Trevorrow's visual feast for action-adventure enthusiasts

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An adventurous journey to the Spielbergian world of chaos and carnage A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali ...

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...

Dil Dhadakne Do (2015): Zoya Akhtar's insipid family drama about an upper class Punjabi business family

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A cliched family affair targeted towards the Anglophone urban audience A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali ...

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 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.