A Potpourri of Vestiges

5 Powerful Movies That Highlight Ethics and Controversies in Sports

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S ports have long been celebrated for their ability to inspire, unite, and push the limits of human achievement. Yet, beneath the thrill of ...

3 Movies That Exposed the Dark Side of Power

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B e it stoic corporate boardrooms or newsroom chaos, cinema has served as society’s unflinching mirror. Power, in all its shapes and forms, ...

Action Superstar Tiger Shroff Becomes the Face of KRAFTON’s BGMI in a Thrilling New Collaboration

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature B ATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA (BGMI) today announced Bollywood action superstar Tiger Shroff as the official...

Comicbook History of Comics: A Review

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Pallavi Tripathi T he book begins where the famous comic strip Yellow Kid starts and goes straight into t...

'Gattaca' Review: A Timeless Fable of Human Spirit and Genetic Fate

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan T here is something about Gattaca that I haven't forgotten even after years of wa...

Australia India Film Council Appoints Two New Board Members

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Shreerupa Mitra T he Australia India Film Council, the only dedicated Australian film council committed to p...

Guru Dutt’s 100th Birth Anniversary: Restored version of all his timeless classics including Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool unveiled

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A s a special tribute to the legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt’s 100th birth anniversary this year, Ultra Media ...

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....

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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