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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....

Madhur Bhandarkar: Chronicling different aspects of society

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Pallavi Tripathi I f cinema is a component of society, shouldn’t it mirror elements of society within it? We...

A Tribute to Lata Mangeshkar

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan B harat Ratna and Queen of Melody Lata Mangeshkar has passed away at the age of 92 after...

The Rise and Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan W hen after his coronation in 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte started his military campaign...

A Tribute to Sean Connery

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature S ir Thomas Sean Connery, one of cinema's greatest icons, is no more. He breathed his last at his home i...

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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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