Context

• • COVID-19- lockdown, social distancing, strains on healthcare systems
  • pandemic disproportionately affecting ethnic minorities including British Pakistanis- they worked front line jobs
  • Reynhard Sinaga- Britain's most prolific rapist- sentenced in 2020, moral panic- this led to a significant proportion of media regarding Islam and Muslims was negative, 60% online articles associated Muslims with negative aspects/ behaviours, focussing on terrorism/extremism
• the title:

  • reflects the central theme of the film- a British-Pakistani man feeling like Mowgli ( a wild child) navigating the Mogul (wealthy, elite) world
  • the film reflects a clash between cultural heritage and adopted Western life