SPECIAL ONE-OFF VIRTUAL CINEMA EVENT OF MOGUL MOWGLI

Mogul Mowgli will be screened alongside the new lyric music video for Riz Ahmed's Once Kings and a Q&A with Riz Ahmed and director Bassam Tariq, recorded for the BFI London Film Festival 2020.

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 director Bassam Tariq’s achievement lies in the details of this heady mosaic.

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