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'Unskin': Elcid Asaei's compelling short film which seamlessly blends narrative cinema with contemporary dance

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews S ome of the most interesting a...

Dev Gupta's 'Qissbah-What is not a story?' to be released by Pocket Films

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Q issbah-What is not a story? -- the award-winning short film written and directed by Dev Gupta...

'Play This': Movie Trailer

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature P lay This is a story about a music band called 'Qabila' whose members are in constant tuss...

'Rammat Gammat' Teaser: A short film by Ajitpal Singh

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature P roduced by Drishyam Films, Tejash Shah and Mauli Singh, Rammat Gammat is directed by Ajitpal Singh....

Aneek Chaudhari's "White" to be screened at Marché du Film as part of Festival de Cannes 2018

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature P roduced under the banner of La artiste, Indian filmmaker Aneek Chaudhari’s silent movie 'White...

Aneek Chaudhari's 'White': A silent film that dares to talk about the consequences of rape

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A fter a return from Cannes with his last feature film The Wife's Letter , director Aneek ...

'Aziyat': A short film by Umar Khan

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan I ndependent short films are a difficult proposition. The one thing that dri...

Mitti - Back To Roots: A Film On Agrarian Crisis Produced By Farmers’ Champions

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature D o you know the farmer who produced the food you ate in your lunch? Do you whether he/she is still ...

Writer-Director Ruchi Joshi talks about her short film 'Murakh' in an interview with A Potpourri of Vestiges

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A Potpourri of Vestiges recently caught up with writer-director Ruchi Joshi who recently co-directed ...

Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Ratein: Of flawed heroes and redemption

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Arpita De for Wishberry You... perhaps it was my fancy... Forgive me for referring to it; I fancied...

Sourabh Shrivastav's 'Play This': Not a Trailer

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature P lay This is a story of some broken souls, The rebels, The outcasts and the wanderers, who are strugg...

Q - The film unfolds captivating the audience’s attention from the very first frame

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature N ational & International award winning film Q is all set to release on Netflix. Q is the direct...

Trailer Review: Haraamkhor seems to walk a tightrope between art and soft porn

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature T he trailer of the long-awaited Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer indie movie Haraamkhor has finally b...

Watch 'Ouch' - A Film By Neeraj Pandey, starring Manoj Bajpayee

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature N eeraj Pandey's much anticipated short film Ouch starring Manoj Bajpayee is now available on ...

Aashiqui - Not A Love Story

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A Still from Aashiqui - Not A Love Story I am delighted to announce the release of my short film #Aas...

PADHTA BIHAR: A Satirical Comedy on the Bihar Topper Scam

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Honorable Education Minister of Bihar, Shri Lallu Ram, interacts with media in Padhta Bihar I am del...

Qissbah - What is not a story?

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Q issbah - What is not a story? is a short film written and directed by Dev Gupta. Clocking at...

A Witch Hunt in Faridabad

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature A couple of hours back, I received an email from W|PoV Films seeking my help in spreading t...

The Filmmaker’s Journey: A Book by Chris Esper

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature H ere is a talismanic book about the indie filmmaking industry written by an indie f...

Death Road - An Anti-Smoking Short Film

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review D eath Road is my first attempt at filmmaking. I co-wrote and co-directed with my friend Nikhil Ra...

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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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