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” — ...

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), ...

We’re introduced to Zaheer, known as Zed, onstage, spitting lyrics about his uncertainties and his goals. He hasn’t been home to see his family in London in two years and there’s an obvious tension ...

Riz Ahmed has been promoting Mogul Mowgli since long before he wrote it. The feature film co-written by Ahmed and director Bassam Tariq began film festival premieres in 2020, released later that year ...

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Discover What’s Streaming On: If you were captivated by Riz Ahmed’s Oscar-nominated turn in last year’s Sound of Metal, you’re in luck. The actor is starring in another intimate music drama, Mogul ...

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 ...

Zed thinks he knows who he is. He’s one of Britain’s breakout rappers, redefining what it means to be Pakistani and Muslim in the UK. But in Mogul Mowgli, he has to consider a new fusion for those ...