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<\/p>\nBritish-Pakistani actor, rapper and writer, Riz Ahmed (aka MC Riz) has been making headlines with his award winning film \u2018Sound of Metal\u2019. Ever since its world premiere Toronto Film Festival, studios have lining up to acquire the rights of the film. Recently, the film has been picked up by Amazon Studios.<\/p>\n
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A first feature film by Darius Marder, who is mostly known for his work in documentaries, \u2018Sound of Metal<\/strong>\u2019 is a story of a heavy metal drummer (played by Riz Ahmed) who suffers from hearing loss after constant drumming in a heavy metal band.<\/p>\n Alongside Riz, the film\u2019s cast include Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Mathieu Amalric and Lauren Ridloff.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Riz Ahmed, Jameela Jamil Boycott The Gates Foundation Event for Modi<\/a><\/p>\n The film received award for Best Film at Zurich International Film Festival. Originally, the film had limited theatrical release. However, with Amazon Studios acquiring the rights, \u2018Sound of Metal<\/strong>\u2019 can be viewed internationally to a much wider audience.<\/p>\n Riz Ahmed has been one of the most talented actors in Hollywood, who rose to prominence with roles in the hit HBO mini-series \u2018The Night Of<\/strong>\u2019 and films such as \u2018The Reluctant Fundamentalist<\/strong>\u2019, \u2018Four Lions\u2019<\/strong>, \u2018Nightcrawler<\/strong>\u2019 alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, and even starred in \u2018Star Wars: Rogue One<\/strong>.<\/p>\n ALSO READ<\/p>\n Pakistani Flick “Laal Kabootar” Gets Nominated for the Oscars!<\/a><\/p>\n British-Pakistani actor, rapper and writer, Riz Ahmed (aka MC Riz) has been making headlines with his award winning film \u2018Sound of Metal\u2019. Ever since its world premiere Toronto Film Festival, studios have lining up to acquire the rights of the film. Recently, the film has been picked up by Amazon Studios. The Story behind Sound of Metal A first feature […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":236261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,2368,1291,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-hollywood","10":"category-social-media","11":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"The movie about a deaf drummer will be released internationally.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sound-of-metal-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sound-of-metal-758x427.jpg",758,427,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sound-of-metal.jpg",1000,563,false]},"author_name":"Sher Alam","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","Hollywood","Social Media","TV & Film"],"title_text":"Riz Ahmed Film \u201cSound of Metal\u201d Gets Picked Up By Amazon Studios","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,2368,1291,1297&exclude=236231","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236231"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=236231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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