A Potpourri of Vestiges

WAVES 2025 is a Watershed Moment for India’s Creative Renaissance: Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tirlok Malik

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A s Mumbai prepares to host the inaugural World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025, there’...

Shaji N. Karun: The Master Cinematic Voyager Who Took Malayalam Cinema Beyond Borders and Time

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Exclusive By Murtaza Ali Khan S ome filmmakers make movies; a rarer few redefine the possibilities of cinema itself....

Polish Institute and India International Centre Film Club Present a Celebration of Polish Cinema in New Delhi

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he Polish Institute is pleased to announce a specially curated series of Polish film screenings, organised...

Siyahi's Writers' Retreats: Chapter One – Crafting unforgettable romantic stories

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature W hether you’re envisioning an iconic love story or cooking up an experimental plot, Chapter One of Siyahi’s...

UNESCO-Backed CIFEJ Elects Indian Filmmaker Jitendra Mishra as President

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A cclaimed Indian filmmaker Jitendra Mishra has been elected President of the UNESCO-backed Internationa...

Adolescence | Netflix Review: A Harrowing Portrait of Youth, Guilt, and the Age of Unknowing

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review T here are stories that arrive with quiet purpose, subtle in their messaging yet seismic in their emotional r...

Bengaluru International Film Festival 2025 Showcases Austrian Cinema

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A still from Sleeping with a Tiger T he Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES 2025), in collaborat...

Fritz Lang, the Nazis, the quest for freedom and his lesser-known films

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Edited by Michael McKown L egendary film director Fritz Lang (Austria, 1890 - United States, 1976) was no ...

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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