Shortly after, he received the script for “Sound of Metal” at the same time he was developing “Mogul Mowgli” with Tariq. In the latter, his English Pakistani rapper is diagnosed with an autoimmune ...

In 2021, Sharlto Copley (“District 9,” “The Witcher”) and Aiysha Hart (“Mogul Mowgli,” “Colette”) spent five months in a ...

Riz Ahmed lost 22 pounds in three weeks for his new role in "Mogul Mowgli." The actor plays a Pakistani rapper who is diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Ahmed worked with a dietitian but told ...

MOGUL MOWGLI is the debut narrative feature from award-winning documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq. It follows the story of a British Pakistani rapper (Riz Ahmed) who, on the cusp of his first world ...

In 2020, Riz Ahmed earned a well-deserved Academy Award nomination playing a drummer losing his hearing in “Sound of Metal.” In “Mogul Mowgli,” Ahmed is even more intense and vulnerable playing a ...

Ever since his breakthrough performances in the dark comedy Four Lions and the crime thriller Nightcrawler, it was clear that Riz Ahmedhad a promising future ahead of him. Although he had the ...

In a year that has stymied many of his peers, Riz Ahmed has been incredibly prolific, with two 2020 feature releases—Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal and Bassam Tariq’s Mogul Mowgli—as well as an album, ...

As Jennifer Aniston knows, a good haircut can make your career in Hollywood. But in Riz Ahmed’s case, so can a bad one. At age 22, the actor-producer-rapper fell victim to a “horrific bowl cut,” he ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...