This week on Film Weekly Jason Solomons meets the British Pakistani actor and rapper Riz Ahmed to discuss his starring role alongside Freida Pinto in Michael Winterbottom's Trishna. The film - a twist on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles - moves the drama from the English countryside to Mumbai and sees Riz's character Jay pursue his dream of becoming a Bollywood star, while attempting to help Trishna (Pinto) escape her poor upbringing. Riz, who also recently starred in Jean-Jacques Annaud's Black Gold, tells Jason how he juggles a busy film career with being a hip-hop MC.
In the reviews section Jason is joined by Henry Barnes to review some of this week's other big releases, including the sci-fi epic John Carter, the gangster Brit-flick Hard Boiled Sweets and David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald in an off-kilter romantic drama The Decoy Bride.
Correction:
This podcast was re-edited on 8 March 2012. The original contained an erroneous reference to The Decoy Bride. This has now been removed.
