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'Ghost Stories' Review: Element of horror comes across as a breath of fresh air

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Khan T he quartet of Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, and Anurag Kashyap ...

Gully Boy selected as India's official entry for the Oscars

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature By Murtaza Ali Khan T he Film Federation of India has picked Zoya Akhtar's "Gully Boy...

The journey from "I Am" to "Made in Heaven": How Onir's award-winning film inspired Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti

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A Potpourri of Vestiges Feature Left: An intimate scene b/w Arjun Mathur and Vikrant Massey in Made in Heaven; Right: A still from 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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