A Potpourri of Vestiges

'Simmba' Review: A quintessential Rohit Shetty masala entertainer

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews I n the year 2010, Hindi cinema witnessed an ...

Ultimate Guide to Writing an Incredible Movie Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Writing a movie review is different from giving a personal feedback. The review should be compose...

RIFF 2019 - 5th edition of the "Rajasthan International Film Festival" will be held from 19th to 23th January 2019

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he fifth edition of the "Rajasthan International Film Festival" organized by RIFF...

"First Reformed" Review: Paul Schrader’s intellectual and artistic endeavour is gripping and thought provoking

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Tanmay Shukla Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews P aul Schrader's ...

'Rajma Chawal' Review: Yadav’s brilliant direction fails to overcome the shortcomings of the screenplay

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews W ith the advent of internet the world starte...

Ajay Yadav's "Suspense" to release on 18th January 2019

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature D irector / Producer Ajay Yadav has picked 18th January 2019 to release his Bollywood venture ‘Sus...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: Coen-esque in tone, visually mesmerizing, great in parts but not overall

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Tanmay Shukla Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews T he Ballad of Buster ...

Mortal Engines: A post-apocalyptic adventure film delivers a visually stunning world

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature D irected by Oscar-winning visual-effects artist Christian Rivers and with a screenplay by Academy Awa...

10 Metrics Every Email Marketer Needs to Track

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I f you run a blog or manage blogs for someone else then you are constantly looking for ways to gr...

Netflix's "Sex Education" to launch globally on January 11 - First Look

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T oday, Netflix unveils the premiere date and the first images of Sex Education , a distinctively...

ZEE5 Original “Tigers”: Oscar-winning Danis Tanovic’s powerful investigative thriller featuring a deeply nuanced performance from Emraan Hashmi

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan R emember No Man's Land? Yes, it's the very film that beat Lagaan to win...

'2.0' Review: Predictable script, groundbreaking visuals

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews D uring an early scene in Shankar’s 2.0 , th...

The Brothers Farrelly and Coen

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Vivaan Shah I think the reason I love the movies is primarily due to The Farrelly Brothe...

Netflix in December 2018: All you want to know

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature P lease see below for synopses of a selection of titles that will be added to Netflix in December ...

The annual cinema carnival of Macao IFFAM’18 to be held from December 8-14

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image: Studio City resort, Macao; Courtesy: travel2next.com T he 3rd International Film Festival &am...

49th IFFI comes to an end with Donbass winning the Golden Peacock and Walking with the Wind receiving the ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature S hri K.J. Alphons, Union Minister of State for Tourism (I/C) has said that Indian movie industry has ...

Directors of World Panorama films in IFFI meet the press

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he directors of the films in the World Panorama section of 49th IFFI-2018 - The Bra, A Sacred ...

'Bhaiaji Superhit' Review: A Sunny Deol film that may have passed as an entertainer back in 2012

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews B ack in the ‘90s, Sunny Deol was nothing less...

7 Cafes to visit at IFFI Goa 2018

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature S ometimes when you’re hungry, instead of a large meal, all you want is a quick bite along with a ...

Netflix Confirms All-Star Hindi Talent for Original Film

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature B ringing together an all-star cast of talent, Netflix announced today Abhishek Bachchan, Madhur...

49th edition of IFFI to open today with the gala opening ceremony

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he 49 th edition of the International Film Festival of India will open today with the gala openin...

Singham Goes Punjabi

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A jay Devgn Films, Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and Panorama Studios have come together to venture int...

IFFI 2018 to open with the World Premiere of ‘The Aspern Papers’

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he 49 th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will open with the World Premiere of ‘ The As...

Special Film Section For Visually Impaired Children at IFFI 2018

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I n 2016, IFFI created a special Film Section , wherein differently abled children were given a chanc...

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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