Mogul Mowgli

Raw intensity permeates Ahmed’s performance...

This is abrasive, confrontational film-making, with a machine-gun assault of ideas and influences.

...lobs up wieldy, potentially impossible-to-answer questions about individual ambition, inherited trauma, artistic integrity, and cultural assimilation and does its best to tackle them all.

The film’s poignancy derives from its profound understanding of its main character’s identity crisis.

...is as powerful as 'Sound of Metal' but also more personal, and also more political...