This post is a part of Write Tribe Festival of Words-3 and the prompt for Day 2 is Blog Love.
Since I am asked to write about a blog I love, the first blog that comes to my mind is A Potpourri of Vestiges.
Image Courtesy: A Potpourri of Vestiges
A potpourri of vestiges is the home to the Avant-Garde, Auteur-Driven, Thought Provoking Cinema, that's how Murtaza likes to define his movie blog. Murtaza follows the best of cinema, that is, from Nosferatu [1922] to Dedh Ishqiya [2014].
As you open this blog, you come across a carousel panel where you find pictures from La Strada, Harakiri, Pyaasa, Citizen Kane or some other classical film by some legendary filmmaker. The reason why I like his blog is because Murtaza is not the regular movie reviewer type but he only chooses the greatest of cinema to review on his blog.
The first time I came across his blog when I was searching about Akira Kurosawa and Google landed me on to his blog. you won't find much of popular cinema on his blog but the critically acclaimed works that has international recognition. Murtaza's Top 100 movies is an authentic list that every movie enthusiast will love. I, being a movie blogger as well, look up to "a potpourri of vestiges" and try to learn anything I can learn about Movie Writing.
About Murtaza [in his own words]
"Murtaza Ali is an independent film critic, sports writer, and blogger based out of Delhi, India. He is the Founder/Editor of the movie blog, A Potpourri of Vestiges. He has been writing movie reviews at IMDB for over five years. He has been associated with F1 India as a content editor. He is also on the panel of reviewers at UltimateReviews, CinemaChronciles, FrontierWeekly, and PaGaLGuY. His education spans science, technology, and management. Cinema is not only his passion but also his greatest obsession. 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 Leonne, Francis Ford Cuppola, Martin Scorsese, and Lars von Trier."
-Amritt Rukhaiyaar
Thanks Amrit for this lovely gesture... I appreciate it very much!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteYou too have got a lovely blog... I am sure that with your passion and hard work you will take it to new heights.
thanks Murtaza, I really love reading anything on your blog :)
DeleteI have read him. And in fact long back also written a guest post for the blog :-)
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Ohh great, I will look for that post now... :)
DeleteI somehow knew you're gonna feature this one....Murtaza indeed has a very gifted distinct style of reviewing and makes the bog look really classy and intelligent :)
ReplyDeleteReally...? That's great.. Well I am a big fan of his review and learn a lot from him about movie writing :)
DeleteI thought of Kajal when I read this blog and I am so glad she has seen it already :) Will view it too!
ReplyDeleteKajal has a very lively blog too... I am a regular reader of Movie Massala.. someday I will wrote a blog love post for that one for sure :)
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