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Mogul Mowgli

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United Kingdom, United States · 2020
1h 29m
Director Bassam Tariq
Starring Riz Ahmed, Aiysha Hart, Nabhaan Rizwan, Kiran Sonia Sawar
Genre Drama, Music

Zed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour when a crippling illness strikes him down, and he is forced to move back in with his family. While in recovery, he tries to reconcile the prospect of an international music career with his Pakistani family traditions.

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80

Empire by

Culturally rich and emotionally raw, Mogul Mowgli is a brilliant showcase for Riz Ahmed’s bevy of talents, and speaks visceral truth to the British-South Asian experience so rarely explored on screen.

70

Variety by Guy Lodge

Outside of Ahmed’s seething, spitting, can’t-look-away performance, Mogul Mowgli is a sparsely scripted but scratchily atmospheric culture-clash drama that runs on some quite traditional father-son melodramatics. But considering the film outside the performance would be a mistake.

60

The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is a deeply personal drama about culture, family, community and what it means to represent – though it can also be self-indulgent and even a bit self-involved, though this is arguably a function of the story.

60

The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton

Handsome and intense, Ahmed is a reliably magnetic screen presence, while his punchy real-life chops as a rapper and lyricist also serve him well here. But his screenwriting skills are less assured, and Mogul Mowgli is strangely low on dramatic or emotional bite given its high-stakes storyline. Baggy editing, underexplained context and flat dialogue add to this muted effect.

70

Screen Daily by Wendy Ide

While the picture doesn’t quite maintain its vigorous energy through to the very end, it is still a satisfyingly knotty exploration of the bi-cultural experience.

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