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An open letter to Gurvinder Singh, the director of the Punjabi film "Chauthi Koot"

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Dear Gurvinder, I hope that by now you would have regained your composure. I still have ...

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999): A satirical comedy about an affluent middle-class professional trying unsuccessfully to enter the elite

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Kubrick swipes at Tom Cruise's lily-white screen persona A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By M K Raghavendra S tanle...

Blade Runner: Why Cutting Edge World Cinema Fails to Cut Ice (Eyes?) with Indian Audiences!

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Indian Middle Class and the Japanese Pill of Hope A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Nataranjan Bohidar M y issue with ...

Katti Batti (2015): Nikhil Advani's syrupy cocktail of shallow and superfluous emotions

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A half-baked cinematic product, lacking both vision and execution A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured ...

A Vote of Thanks: A Potpourri of Vestiges completes 1.7 million hits

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I am delighted to share with you all that today " A Potpourri of Vestiges " completed 1....

The Night Porter (1974): Liliana Cavani's emphatic examination of sadomasochistic gratification

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A daring treatise on sexual sadomasochism A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews...

Jackie Brown (1997): American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's most mature film till date

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Grier and Forster shine in their comeback performances A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Cri...

Ek Nadir Galpo: Tale of a River (2015): A Puerile Fiasco by the Production Designer Turned Storyteller

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Sadly Sameer Chanda would not have another chance to prove himself A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featur...

Artificial Intelligence Festival (17th - 19th September): Celebrating Robots and Technology

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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...

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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.