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Ant-Man (2015): The Miniature 3D goes sky high in the hands of Director Peyton Reed and actor Paul Rudd

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The latest gift from Marvel Comics departs from the regular Avenger type A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Feat...

Masaan (2015): Neeraj Ghaywan's reading of small town Indian life and love

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Politics of the everyday life and death in contemporary India. A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri L ot has ...

Nayak (1966): Satyajit Ray's brooding character study featuring a heart-wrenching performance from Uttam Kumar

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A powerful treatise on fame, guilt, empathy and solitude A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featu...

Sujoy Ghosh's short film 'Ahalya' starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Radhika Apte - Watch Online on YouTube

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature R oyal Stag Large Short Films, known for showcasing films by the likes of Sudhir Mishra and Anurag K...

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015): Kabir Khan's heart-warming film that cuts across the religious and political divides that separate India and Pakistan

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A Salman Khan film that’s much more than being just another mindless entertainer A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Mu...

FTII Crisis: A Cinephile's Point of View

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image Courtesy: moifightclub.wordpress.com I am really a nobody, and, yet, as somebody who loves c...

Sujoy Ghosh's short film 'Ahalya' starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Radhika Apte - Movie Trailer

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Watch the full movie here R oyal Stag Large Short Films, known for showcasing films by the likes of ...

The Gallows (2015): A found footage horror film by Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing

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Where Paranormal Activities Comes to the Stage A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews...

Amy (2015): Asif Kapadia's intoxicating documentary showcasing the rise and fall of Amy Winehouse

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A Jazz Life in Review A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Amy (2015 ) - B...

Max (2015): Boaz Yakin's touching but predictably simple story about man’s best friend

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Max (2015 ) - By Boaz Yakin Our Rating...

Terminator Genisys (2015): Alan Taylor's high octane summer extravanganza for the action movie enthusiasts

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A 'Terminator' film for the fans, by the fans A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured...

Danny Boyle's "Steve Jobs" (2015) starring Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen and Kate Winslet: Movie Trailer Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Michael Fassbender (left) as Steve Jobs and Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak T he official trail...

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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.