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Home / Archive for September 2019

Meet Asheish Nijhawan - The Kashmiri actor who plays Taliban second in command Aftab Khalid in the Netflix series 'Bard of Blood'

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Exclusive By Murtaza Ali Khan Actor Asheish Nijhawan F or Asheish Nijhawan it was the love of theatre th...
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'The Family Man' Review: Raj & DK attain a new level of technical mastery

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan T owards the latter part of the Amazon Prime Video espionage series  The Fami...
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Sanjib Dey’s award-winning multilingual film ‘III Smoking Barrels’ is now streaming on Netflix

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan S anjib Dey's award-winning multilingual film 'III Smoking Barrels'...
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Netflix Releases Official El Camino Trailer Featuring Aaron Paul Reprising his Role as Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman

Murtaza Ali Khan 12:54:00 PM Add Comment Edit
A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature O n the heels of Sunday’s  first look  at Jesse Pinkman during the Primetime Emmys, Netflix rel...
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Netflix Original 'Bard of Blood' Review: Emraan Hashmi shines in a topnotch spy thriller series

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan "A spy is only true to his mission," a man tells a Pakistani intelli...
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'Zoya Factor' Review: It takes too many cinematic liberties

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan A bhishek Sharma’s The  Zoya Factor  is based on Anuja Chauhan’s 2008 novel of the ...
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Gully Boy selected as India's official entry for the Oscars

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan T he Film Federation of India has picked Zoya Akhtar's "Gully Boy...
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Kiara Advani roped in for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature R ecently, the makers of Kabir Singh announced their next collaboration, a stand-alone sequel to th...
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Netflix Announces Drive, its first original film with Dharma Productions

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature N etflix announced that Dharma Productions’  Drive  will premiere as a Netflix Film exclusively on...
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Meet Solanki Diwaker - A talented actor of Dream Girl fame who sells fruits on the streets of Delhi for a living

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Exclusive By Murtaza Ali Khan Actor Solanki Diwaker  INDIA. New Delhi. September 19, 2019 E veryday he wak...
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The Guardian's 100 best films of the 21st century - The Hits and Misses

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan P eter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard have pick...
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'Section 375' Review: Finally, a well-researched commercial film

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan T owards the end of  Section 375 , a female lawyer tells her mentor, “Sir, I do...
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Judi Dench to attend Ram Kamal's Season's Greetings world premiere at Cardiff International Film Festival

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A uthor turned director Ram Kamal's Season's Greetings: A Tribute to Rituparno Ghosh, will ha...
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'Dream Girl': First Reaction Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A yushmann Khurrana has been on a roll and his dream run continues with #DreamGirl... the solid all ar...
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The Trailer of RSVP and Roy Kapur Films ‘The Sky is Pink’ is out now

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A n amazing true story of a family that will make audiences laugh, cry and be inspired -  The Sky ...
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'Section 375': First Reaction Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature S ection 375 is a thinking man's courtroom drama that stands head and shoulders above the other Hi...
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie will launch October 11 on Netflix

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature N etflix kicked off the  Breaking Bad   rewatch campaign using an anthemic piece, Enchanted, perfor...
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'Chhichhore' Review: Abandons realism for melodrama

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan W riter-director Nitesh Tiwari is currently one of the best filmmakers working in...
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Amazon announces the third edition of KDP Pen to Publish Contest

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A mazon India has announced the third edition of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Pen to Publish Cont...
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Is Netflix really Anti-Hindu?

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Image Courtesy: News18 A member of the Shiv Sena has filed a police complaint against Netflix allegi...
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The Rise of Nalneesh Neel

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Nalneesh Neel in III Smoking Barrels, which is currently streaming on Netflix A ctor Nalneesh Neel ...
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Urvashi Rautela stuns in a Blue outfit

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature U rvashi Rautela stuns in a blue outfit. This is from the last week at a Dahi Handi event. Outfit...
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Speaking Tiger and Rajkamal Prakashan join hands to release Tales from the Tail End: My Cancer Diary

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature The Capital recently witnessed a unique event of a book launch at the Indian International Centre as t...
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Ram Kamal Mukherjee's 'A Tribute to Rituparno Ghosh: Season's Greetings' to premiere on ZEE5 post Diwali

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A fter the success of Cakewalk, author turned director Ram Kamal Mukherjee's second feature  A Tr...
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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 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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