A Potpourri of Vestiges

Junoon (1978): Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal's cinematic epic featuring a tour de force from Shashi Kapoor

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Ruskin Bond's treatise on love, obsession, war and death A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Cr...

The Best Offer (2013): Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore's haunting tale of love

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A modern masterpiece with thrills of a classic Hitchcock A Potpourri of Vestiges Guest Review By Thomas Samuel Featured in I...

The Last Tycoon (1976): Elia Kazan's swan song featuring a mesmerizing performance from Robert De Niro

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A highly underrated masterwork of cinematic art A Potpourri of Vestiges Review By Murtaza Ali Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews...

Best Films of Francis Ford Coppola

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W henever one speaks of the 20th century American cinema, a name that inevitably comes to mind is that of Francis Ford Coppola. With ...

About Author

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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