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Veerappan (2016) - Movie Review

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A telling biopic on the notorious Indian brigand Koose Muniswamy Veerappan A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan ( @a...

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - Movie Review

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A promising film marred by over-ambition and self-indulgence A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan...

Confer the Bharat Ratna to legendary Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen - A Petition

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review M rinal Sen, during the course of his illustrious filmmaking career, has been one of the greatest amb...

Azhar (2016) - Movie Review

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An engaging multi-genre film about cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Al...

Death of a Gentleman - Movie Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Sanket Ray "It is easier to make a film on Sachin Tendulkar rather than a film about cric...

The Jungle Book (2016): Movie Review

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New concoction etching the racist fable in the same spirit A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Anirban Lahiri Featured...

Inferno: Teaser Poster and Trailer

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature S ony Pictures have launched the first poster (teaser) of Inferno. The movie comes to cinemas in In...

Captain America: Civil War - Movie Review

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A new benchmark for superhero movies A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan ( @apotofvestiges ) Featured in...

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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.