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17th Asian Film Awards Appoints 4 Asian Stars as Youth Ambassadors, Miyazawa Hio Will Appear as the First Japanese Ambassador

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature F or the first time in its history, the Asian Film Awards Academy (Academy or AFAA) has appointed not one,...

'Drive My Car' Review: A powerful treatise on love, betrayal, solitude, longing, and grief

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan T he 92nd Academy Awards would always be remembered for the unprecedented success of a no...

Japan Foundation announces the launch of the fifth edition of Japanese Film Festival 2022 in India

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature J apan Foundation announces the launch of the fifth edition of its Japanese Film Festival (JFF) in India, in...

‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train’ is a treat for anime-manga lovers

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan T he cinemas are finally open and the cinephiles can at last get a taste of some good old...

Rashomon (1950): Akira Kurosawa's treatise on the subjectivity of truth that introduced Japanese cinema to the world

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan R ashomon (1950), a Japanese film directed by master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, introduced...

'Seven Samurai' Review: Akira Kurosawa's timeless epic

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan S even Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) is a quintessential Kurosawa movie, and probably t...

Japan Foundation Adopts Digital Edition For Japanese Film Festival 2020

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature J apan Foundation New Delhi announces the Japanese Film Festival (JFF) 2020 in India to go virtual amid the ...

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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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