Murtaza Ali is an independent film critic based out of New 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 six years. He is on the panel of reviewers at The Huffington Post, Ultimate Reviews, Frontier Weekly, and ProdNote. He is also a Movie Jockey at desimartini. His education spans science, technology and management. Cinema is not only his passion but also his greatest obsession. His all-time favorite filmmakers are Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Jean-Pierre Melville, Sergio Leone, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Lars von Trier.