Growing up, Riz Ahmed would hear his family downstairs shout, “Asian!” and he’d rush to where they were gathered around the TV.
Sanjeev Bhaskar in Goodness Gracious Me, Parminder Nagra in Bend It Like Beckham.
In 2017, Ahmed was invited to address the British Parliament for an annual lecture about diversity — a funny and depressing turn of phrase — and noted that the continued misrepresentation of Muslims in film and television was a missed opportunity and dangerous.
Inspired by his moving words, two Muslim film buffs then created “the Riz Test,” reproduced here from the official site:
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