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The poster of Impulse Cine Entertainments Hindi feature film 'Sandeh' recently launched by the Deputy CM of Uttar Pradesh Sh. Brajesh Pathak in Lucknow

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I mpulse Cine Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and Sanjay Rai are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated theatre...

Best of 2020: Hindi Films and Series

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he year 2020 to be a rather interesting year for the Hindi entertainment industry. At a time when Covid-1...

The Great Gambler is a classic Indian drama

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he Great Gambler is one of those quintessential Bollywood movies - with tons of drama, suspense and actio...

How our cinematic storytelling has changed since Mohabbatein

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan I have very rarely seen an actor completely overshadowing Amitabh Bachchan in a movi...

Listen to the latest episodes of 'Sunehara Daur with Deepak Dua' on Storytel featuring film critic Murtaza Ali Khan

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature I recently had the pleasure of appearing as a film expect on senior film critic Deepak Dua's pop...

Book Excerpt - Human Cinema : The Films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee by Rammesh

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Rammesh 1961: Chhaya Plot: Manorama’s (Nirupa Roy) unemployed husband dies in an accident...

An exclusive interview with the noted film journalist Deepak Dua

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Exclusive By Murtaza Ali Khan Film Journalist Deepak Dua E ver wondered what it takes to become ...

Smita Patil - An actress who lived through her role—and how!

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Smita Patil and her cinematic genius in Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth (1982) A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T outed as one of the finest a...

NFAI presents 'Stree: A Tribute to Womanhood in Indian Cinema' at the 48th IFFI

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature E stablished in 1964, National Film Archive of India (NFAI) is the premier organization under Govt. ...

'Timeless Asha': Zee Classic's tribute to the legendary Asha Bhosle on the occasion of her 84th birthday

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he legendary Indian singer Asha Bhosle is turning 84 on September 8, 2017. To mark the momentou...

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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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