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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Mogul Mowgli

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the film Mogul Mowgli, Riz Ahmed stars as Zed, an on-the-rise rapper whose biggest gig yet is threatened by the sudden onset of an illness. He's also forced to confront his own insecurities about his family and British-Pakistani identity. Ahmed co-wrote the movie along with the director Bassam Tariq, and the result is a compelling and surprising story that dances between fiction and autobiography, realism and fantasy.

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In the movie Mogo Mogli, Riz Ahmed blurs the line between fiction and autobiography.

0:09.9

He stars as Zed and on the rise rapper whose biggest gig yet is threatened by the sudden

0:14.2

onset of an illness.

0:15.9

He's also forcibly confront his own insecurities about his family and British Pakistani identity.

0:21.1

Ahmed co-wrote the movie along with director Basam Tariq and the result is compelling and

0:25.5

surprising story that dances between realism and fantasy.

0:29.2

I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking about Mogo Mogli on pop culture happy hour

0:33.5

from NPR.

0:40.1

Joining me today from Toronto is culture writer and panelist on the CBC's pop chat,

0:44.6

Emil Miyazi.

0:45.6

Welcome Emil.

0:46.6

Hi thanks so much for having me.

0:48.3

Yeah I'm very excited to talk with you about this movie.

0:52.3

Mogo Mogli stars Riz Ahmed as Zed, a British rapper who's just booked his first world tour

0:56.9

as an opener for a major artist.

0:59.2

But before the tour can even begin, he suddenly struck by a disease that affects his muscles

1:03.0

and leaves him unable to walk.

1:05.4

Now if this sounds a lot like Santa Metal, well there are some definite similarities here.

1:10.8

That was an indie film in which Ahmed played a musician facing a crossroads after he loses

1:15.1

most of his hearing.

1:16.8

But Mogo Mogli feels like a different movie in many ways, especially because it's also

1:20.6

dealing with the traumas of political and familial history and it plays with more abstract

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