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Kanu Behl's "Titli" (2015): A harsh reminder of the naked realities of the world we inhabit

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A riveting cinematic experience not meant for the faint-hearted A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in...

Novel-to-Screen Film Festival (31st October): Film Screening of "The Martian" and "Maze Runner 2"

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he Embassy of the United States of America is organizing ‘Novel-to-Screen Film Festival’ on 31s...

QUANTICO: Bholiwood newBIe in Federal heeBIe-jeeBIe

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Nataranjan Bohidar E very time I get down to watch QUANTICO I get the heebie-jeebies. ...

Breck Eisner's "The Last Witch Hunter" (2015): A neo-mythical extravaganza in the dark abyss of magic

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“You don’t go anywhere, because there’s nowhere to go!” A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured in I...

Vikas Bahl's "Shaandaar" (2015): A nonsensical entertainer or Alia in Wonderland?

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An over-the-top laughter riot A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews Shaandaa...

On the set with Pier Paolo Pasolini - Press Release

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A photographic exhibition to mark the fortieth death anniversary of the noted Italian writer and director A Potpourri of Vestiges Feat...

Bridge of Spies (2015): Steven Spielberg's le Carré-esque espionage thriller inspired by true events

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A Spielberg film sans the typical Spielbergian elements A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb ...

Joe Wright's Pan (2015): How Peter gets transformed

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This time Peter befriends Hook to fight the Pirate Blackbeard A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured...

Anticipating Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's upcoming film "The Revenant"

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A listing of Inarritu's Top 5 films A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Pallavi Tripathi Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro ...

Denis Villeneuve's Sicario (2015): The Hitman on the move along the notorious US-Mexico border

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The deeper you go, the darker it gets A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Robert Zemeckis' The Walk (2015): A story of Performance Art in the air

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The tale of a man who wants to walk the immense void b/w the WTC towers A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Fea...

Jazbaa (2015): Sanjay Gupta's engaging action thriller with feministic undertones

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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's much-awaited return to the Silver Screen A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featu...

Talvar (2015): Meghna Gulzar's propaganda film about the 2008 Noida double murder case

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An underwhelming cinematic experience A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews ...

Ridley Scott's "The Martian": HOT POTATO IN A JACKET or How do you make Veggies kool*?

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Nataranjan Bohidar F uture generations will most likely believe, given our penchant ...

Kothanodi - The River of Fables (2015): A minimalist surreal work that will set the benchmark for the film industry in Assam

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A story set in Assam in the days of yore with four overlapping tales of women A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Roopa Barua Featu...

The Martian (2015): Ridley Scott's cerebral space adventure with a nice mix of science and entertainment

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A testament to the indomitable spirit of man A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Revie...

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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.