Tag: Riz Ahmed
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Bradley Cooper, Dua Lipa, Florence Pugh, other artists sign open letter urging Gaza ceasefire
An open letter was posted on social media by Pakistani-British actor Riz Ahmed, calling for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza. The letter urged world leaders and civilians to end the ongoing bombing in Gaza, where currently the death toll is set to hit 7000, including 3000 children. “We urge your administration, and all world leaders,…
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More Hollywood stars including Joaquin Phoenix and Cate Blanchett ask for ceasefire in Gaza
As social media users and human rights activists put out a loud chorus to end the genocide in Palestine, celebrities are also adding their voice. According to Variety, a group of 55 actors which included A-list celebrities like Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, Joaquin Phoenix and Riz Ahmed, have signed an open letter demanding US President…
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These are the celebrities raising their voice for Palestinians
While it does feel like many celebrities in Hollywood are either pushing false information or ignoring the bombing of Gaza, there are singers and actors who are raising their voice in favour of Palestinian civilians, demanding that a ceasefire be declared. Roger Waters The former Pink Floyd singer released a video statement where he spoke…
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Hollywood actor Riz Ahmed calls for end to violence in Gaza
Emmy award winning British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed has broken silence to call out the silence around the violence in Palestine. In a lengthy statement posted on his social media accounts, then ‘Nimona’ actor began the note by talking about the power of storytelling which takes audiences on a journey. “As storytellers we put ourselves in…
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Riz Ahmed’s ‘Nimona’ hailed by critics as a unique queer fantasy
On Friday, Netflix dropped the highly anticipated animated fantasy film ‘Nimona’ which stars Pakistani-British actor Riz Ahmed, Chloe Grace Montez, Eugene Lee Yang as the main leads, and is adapted from the comics of the same name by ‘She-Ra’ creator ND Stevenson. Since its release, critics have hailed the film as a gorgeous queer fantasy…
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When Fawad Khan and Ranveer Singh got rejected for a Hollywood film
Actor Fawad Khan confessed in an interview that he was looking forward to a get a role in the Hollywood feature film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist after he was led on for a year by the makers. The Zindagi Gulzar Hai star shared that he was very disheartened when he did not get the role after…
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President Arif Alvi, actor Riz Ahmed hit out at Akshay Kumar’s ‘Sooryavanshi’ for Islamophobic content
Journalist Rana Ayyub highlighted the ‘Islamophobic’ elements in Bollywood’s Sooryavanshi in her article for Washington post. The acclaimed journalist tweeted about the same, reinstating that, “yet another exercise in criminal Islamophobia that seeks to normalise Narendra Modi’s anti-Muslim agenda. She claimed that it “feeds into the Muslim as terrorist narrative.” Starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina…
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‘Messed up, rigged, racist’: Riz Ahmed slams international cinema for misrepresentation of Muslims
British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed has expressed his views on the way Muslims are portrayed on screen internationally. “The game right now is messed up. The game right now is rigged,” Ahmed said in a new interview with news outlet Muslim. “Muslims are either not on screen or they are [and] they’re the bad guys. They’re perpetrators…
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VIDEO: Riz Ahmed fixes wife’s hair on Oscars red carpet
Riz Ahmed may have lost the Oscar Award for Best Actor to Anthony Hopkins but he walked away with the best red carpet appearance when he took a moment to fix his wife Fatima Farheen Mirza’s hair. Ahmed had revealed in January that he had tied the knot in secret a few months back. In…
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Riz Ahmed’s family has the most desi response to his Oscar nomination
British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed’s family reacted to his historic Oscar nod in the most desi fashion ever. In a social media post Riz revealed that his cousin was unaware of what the Oscars were and was unable to understand why his nomination was such a big deal. “My cousin Adnan legit didn’t know what the…