The Oscar nominee also co-wrote Bassam Tariq’s fiery feature debut, a surreal rap drama that's really about diaspora. Zed’s physical battle coincides with his first trip home in years, and the gap in ...
The canned British character study “Mogul Mowgli” disappoints on a few levels, especially given its admirable focus on authenticity and cultural identity in a kitchen-sink drama about Zed (Riz Ahmed), ...
Even the title is partially taken from one of Ahmed’s songs (“Half Moghul Half Mowgli” by Swet Shop Boys). And then we meet Tuba Tek Singh (pictured above right), a beflowered hallucination of ...
Riz Ahmed plays an aspiring rapper facing a life-or-death crisis in the semi-autobiographical drama 'Mogul Mowgli'. By Stephen Dalton British screen star Riz Ahmed draws on his side career as a rapper ...
A rapper hero to the Pakistani diaspora of London, Zed (Riz Ahmed) of the exhilarating “Mogul Mowgli” is a fount of unrelentingly angry rhymes, most of them assailing the persistent outsider status of ...
Full disclosure: When I was growing up, “The Jungle Book” was my jam. And as an adult, “forget about your worries and your strife” — the simplest of the “Bare Necessities” lines — is a guiding mantra.
Riz Ahmed has his musical career derailed by the sudden onset of a degenerative disease. The basic premise sounds familiar — the actor plays a similar role in the Oscar-nominated “Sound of Metal” — ...
Even the title is partially taken from one of Ahmed’s songs (“Half Moghul Half Mowgli” by Swet Shop Boys). And then we meet Tuba Tek Singh (pictured above right), a beflowered hallucination of ...
Playing — once more — a hard-living musician brought down by his own body, Riz Ahmed electrifies Bassam Tariq's British culture-clash drama. Outside of Ahmed’s seething, spitting, can’t-look-away ...