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An open letter to Gurvinder Singh, the director of the Punjabi film "Chauthi Koot"

Murtaza Ali Khan 11:02:00 PM 2 Comments Edit

A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Dear Gurvinder, I hope that by now you would have regained your composure. I still have ...

Chauthi Koot (2015): Indian filmmaker Gurvinder Singh's poignant tale about the legendary Sikh farmers caught in post-Bluestar Punjab

Murtaza Ali Khan 4:39:00 AM 6 Comments Edit

A raw slice of cinema flowing with the understated elegance that's typical of the Sikh community A Potpourri of Vestiges Review ...

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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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