Mughal Mowgli

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Movie
Original title Mughal Mowgli
Country of production USA , UK
original language English , Urdu
Publishing year 2020
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Bassam Tariq
script Riz Ahmed , Bassam Tariq
music Paul Corley
camera Annika Summerson
cut Adam Biskupski , Hazel Baillie
occupation

Mogul Mowgli (also Mughal Mowgli ) is a film drama by Bassam Tariq , which premiered in February 2020 as part of the Berlin Film Festival .

action

The British-Pakistani rapper Zed, born in 1990, has just given his biggest concert to date in New York when his girlfriend and manager Vaseem told him about a planned tour in Europe. This should begin in London. His girlfriend doesn't want a relationship when he's always on the go and on the go.

Zed flies to London, where his parents also live. The father still runs the Pakistani restaurant there that he used to run, and Zed's old room is still as it was when he left it. He listens to himself on cassette through old recordings of him from childhood. He is confronted again with the culture that he had partly forgotten in the USA, whereas in his songs he processed his experiences as a migrant.

After feeling numbness in his leg several times , Zed collapses and wakes up in the hospital. After a biopsy, in which muscle tissue is removed from him, Zed is confronted with the diagnosis. He has an autoimmune disease in which his body attacks and weakens its own muscles. Since there is no chance of a cure and his condition does not improve, an experimental therapy is suggested, which, however, has side effects similar to chemotherapy and can reduce or destroy his fertility .

His father Bashir calls a healer to help him, who fleecs his son. Zed can't stand to see his parents arguing about his further treatment. His manager Vaseem doesn't want to do the tour with him because he should first take care of his health. Instead, the rapper RPG, for whom Zed was always the greatest role model, is to replace him on the tour. For this, Vaseem would like to use Zed's latest song Toba Tek Singh , which he is supposed to sell and sing RPG on the tour, but Zed doesn't think much of the art of his "colleague" and his own lyrics. However, he believes they are similar.

At first Zed thinks he will get fit again quickly, but quickly he can hardly move independently. In visions, Zed repeatedly sees a fat man whose face is covered by a Pakistani flower arrangement. Before donating his sperm for a freeze, Zed calls his ex-girlfriend to ask if he can write her name on the papers for the frozen sperm. After she ends the conversation without answering, Zed gives a sample of his spit.

After Zed starts IV therapy, he can at least walk again quickly, which makes him cry with joy. He goes to his parents, where his strength returns. He's also got his voice back, so good that he can sing along with his father Toba Tek Singh when the RPG song is sung on the radio.

production

Riz Ahmed took on the role of the young British rapper Zed, who was struck down by a serious illness

Directed by Bassam Tariq , who wrote the script together with Riz Ahmed . Ahmed also starred in the film as the young British rapper Zed. In his last film Sound of Metal , Ahmed played a musician whose career was shaken by an illness. For the actual documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq, it is the directing and screenwriting debut for a feature film.

Annika Summerson acted as camerawoman . The film music was composed by Paul Corley .

From February 21, 2020, the film was presented in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival and celebrated its premiere here. Since the film had already been selected for the 55th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival , but it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, screenings took place in early July 2020 as part of the “KVIFF at Your Cinema” initiative, where it was one of 16 Films was shown for nine days in various cinemas in the Czech Republic.

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 2020

  • Nomination for Best First Feature
  • Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in the Panorama section

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tom Grater: Berlin Film Festival Adds Riz Ahmed Pic 'Mogul Mowgli', Oleg Sentsov-Directed 'Numbers'. In: deadline.com, January 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ https://www.filmportal.de/nachrichten/berlinale-panorama-2020-begrenzgaenge
  3. ^ Fabien Lemercier: French sales agents spring into action at the AFM. In: cineuropa.org, November 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Martin Kudláč: The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival goes local for a unique 2020 edition. In: cineuropa.org, May 25, 2020.
  5. ↑ GWFF Award for Best First Feature. In: berlinale.de. Retrieved February 8, 2020.