Rizwan cast members of his own family in his sitcom Juice, a joyous celebration of a neurotic Pakistani-British man navigating love, family and work stresses.
Mawaan Rizwan has a degree in funny. Though he rose to fame as a precocious teenage YouTuber, he is a formally qualified comedian, having trained in clowning at the prestigious Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris. As he tells it, it was an experience more akin to boot camp than running away to join the circus.
You can see all that training pay off as he hurls himself into his work with abandon, throwing gags at the story likeis picked out in vivid colour and movement, with the surrealistic blend of what’s actually going on around Jamma, and what’s going on within his mind, making for a fresh and bizarre aesthetic. With lots of dancing just for the hell of it.
“Well, Jamma is a massive attention seeker and is very insecure, so obviously it’s completely autobiographical,” he quips, before addressing the question more seriously. “I would say it’s a fictional piece. As a writer, you’re always drawing on feelings and emotions that I felt. But as a show, it departed quite early into fiction, and also the actors really helped with that when they came on board and made it their own.
The feelings Jamma is moving through in that playground are, despite the copious silliness on display, some pretty heavy ones: questions of love and commitment, pressures of working life, and the tension between his own personal life and his obligations to family are the foundation of the comedy.How Gay Is Pakistan
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