A Potpourri of Vestiges

Rustom: Movie Trailer

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Read our review of Rustom T he official trailer of the highly anticipated Akshay Kumar film Rusto...

Nurturing the Auteur/Artist: Teaching Filmmaking with a Difference - In Discussion with Filmmaker and Film Educationalist Oorvazi Irani

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Exclusive Filmmaker and Film Educationalist Oorvazi Irani O orvazi Irani , the young and dynamic director...

Raman Raghav 2.0: Movie Review

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Anurag Kashyap's exercise in self-indulgence A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan ( @apotofvestiges ) Featured...

Actor Tanuj Virwani goes in a Footloose way

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Actor Tanuj Virwani with Akshara Haasan A ctor Tanuj Virwani who has been very busy lately filming...

Udta Punjab - Movie Review

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An eye-opening account of the Punjab drug crisis A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan ( @apotofvestiges ) Featured i...

ANTICIPATING UDTA PUNJAB: Civilizational Cradling & Craving

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Nataranjan Bohidar The Dawn of Man F or 6 million years, the space that we call Eastern Af...

Te3n (2016) - Movie Review

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A slow burning thriller in the vein of classic whodunits A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan ( @apotofvestiges ) Fea...

Anamika (1973) - Movie Review

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A Hitchcockian Bollywood Romantic Thriller A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Ashwin Mazdur Anamika (1973) - By Raghunath J...

Death Road - An Anti-Smoking Short Film

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review D eath Road is my first attempt at filmmaking. I co-wrote and co-directed with my friend Nikhil Ra...

About Author

Murtaza Ali Khan is an independent film critic / journalist based out of New Delhi, India. He has been writing on cinema for over 10 years. He runs the award-winning entertainment blog A Potpourri of Vestiges. He 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 at @MurtazaCritic.

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