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Riz Ahmed reacts to Golden Globe nod for ‘Sound of Metal’
Entertainment
Thu, Feb 04, 2021
British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed is over the moon after bagging a Golden Globe nomination for his film Sound of Metal.
The
Venom star, 38, is hoping his nod for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, will bring more light to his film, Sound of Metal, directed by Darius Marder.
Speaking to
Deadline,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist actor said: “It’s a lovely feeling to have people shine a light on work that you feel good about on a project that’s close to your heart more than anything.”
Lihaaf (The Quilt).
Leila (2019).
To tackle the question of why the choice of language creates a make or break situation in these adaptations, we are forced to return to the heavily explored but still relevant debate about the assumed audience of English language novels from South Asian countries, all of which are literally teeming with regional language literature. African literature scholar Eileen Julien wrote of the pressures on African writers to produce the “extroverted novel” that has “been asked to satisfy contradictory demands: to be “universal” but to display its “difference”.
Elsewhere, Eleni Coundouriotis countered with an exploration of the “introverted novel” that divests from transnational and global concerns and focuses instead on producing a people’s history from below, thus offering critical perspectives on that particular nation or region.
Riz Ahmed named best actor by National Board of Review for ‘Sound of Metal’
By
Sound of Metal.
The
Reluctant Fundamentalist actor has been named by the National Board of Review as the best actor of 2021, making prospects of his Oscar nod shine brighter than ever.
Ahmed bagged the best actor spot for his stellar portrayal in
Sound of Metal.
Made up of a group of film enthusiasts, industry professionals, academics and filmmakers, the NBR almost every year accurately names the Oscar nominations before they are announced.
This year, the organization gave the best film honour to
Da 5 Bloods and the best director prize to the film’s director.