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.

...the film steers away from being too sentimental and finds a moving and invigorating conclusion with Ahmed firmly at its thumping heart.