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Mogul Mowgli  2020
Mughal Mowgli
Director:  Bassam Tariq
Producer:
  Riz Ahmed, Thomas Benski, Bennett McGhee and Michael Peay
Art Director:
  Mimi Winsor
Editor:
  Adam Biskupski and Hazel Baillie
Music:
  Paul Corley
Screenplay:
  Bassam Tariq and Riz Ahmed
Director of Photography:
  Anika Summerson
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Cast:
spacer1 Riz Ahmed
spacer1 Alyy Khan
spacer1 Sudha Bhuchar
spacer1 Nabhaan Rizwan
spacer1 Anjana Vasan
spacer1 Aiysha Hart
spacer1 Hussain Manawer
spacer1 Kiran Sonia Sawar
spacer1 Jeff Mirza
spacer1 Ali Bartouti
spacer1 Abdul Hakim Joy
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spacer1 Riz Ahmed spacer1 Alyy Khan spacer1 Sudha Bhuchar
spacer1 Nabhaan Rizwan spacer1 Anjana Vasan spacer1 Aiysha Hart
spacer1 Hussain Manawer spacer1 Kiran Sonia Sawar spacer1 Jeff Mirza
spacer1 Ali Bartouti spacer1 Abdul Hakim Joy spacer1
spacer1 Riz Ahmed spacer1 Alyy Khan
spacer1 Sudha Bhuchar spacer1 Nabhaan Rizwan
spacer1 Anjana Vasan spacer1 Aiysha Hart
spacer1 Hussain Manawer spacer1 Kiran Sonia Sawar
spacer1 Jeff Mirza spacer1 Ali Bartouti
spacer1 Abdul Hakim Joy spacer1

Synopsis:
Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmed) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is the vulnerability of illness and his decreasing mobility that brings both focus and fragmentation – memories and hallucinations merge to the beat of Qawwali music and are haunted by fervent apparitions of a masked figure – conjuring the unspoken spectre of Partition, which looms large in his father’s unspoken words.

Further bruising Zed’s ego is his nemesis – RPG, a young rapper whose face tattoos and crass lyrics bewilder him. Both a paean to the importance of cultural heritage and a sharply observed reflection on muscle memory, the richness of Tariq’s achievement lies in the details of this heady mosaic.

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