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“The Culmination Of Years Of Dehumanizing Brown People”: Why UK Riots Were A Brutal Reminder Of How Film & TV Failed South Asian Creatives
Far-right riots in the UK were the culmination of years of "dehumanizing brown people" in film and TV, according to South Asian and Muslim creatives.
Waseem Mahmood is uniquely positioned to speak on this subject after he worked as a BBC producer; set up TV Asia, the first satellite service for the British Asian community; and received an OBE honor from Queen Elizabeth II for media reconstruction in post-war countries, including Afghanistan. Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio has previously defended creative choices, arguing that the “principal terror threats in the UK do originate from Islamist sympathizers.” He did, however, block critics on Twitter/X and has refused to answer questions on Muslim portrayal in his series, which was the most-watched in a decade when it premiered on the BBC. He was, until recently, talking to a major UK broadcaster about a feature film chronicling the life of Noor Inayat Khan, a British resistance agent who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp and posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service.
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