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Mawaan Rizwan

The actor, comedian and writer Mawaan Rizwan, on the music that shaped his life.

The actor, comedian and writer Mawaan Rizwan, recently told the NME, β€œIn every job I do, I want to smash the box that people put me in”.

Born in Pakistan, Mawaan’s family moved to the UK when he was three, he grew up in East London, with a mother who’d been a child star in Pakistan so if the performance gene were a thing, he very much has it it.

As an actor he’s played roles in Simon Amstell’s Benjamin and Carnage, he wrote for the hit Netflix series Sex Education, and you can see his new surreal ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Three series Juice on iPlayer.

What then, will his Inheritance Tracks be?

Inherited: Mera Laung Gawacha by Musarrat Nazir
Pass on: Paper Planes by MIA

Producer: Ben Mitchell

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