Riz Ahmed is known as an actor for films and series like The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Rogue One and The Night of. But the 35 year old, who is of Pakistani decent, is also popular as a rapper under the name of Riz MC. Riz’s music has a lot of Bollywood and South Asian influence, and for his next single he has sampled one of the most iconic lines of Hindi cinema “Mogambo khush hua”. The song is aptly titled Mogambo and to promote its release, Riz has been asking his famous friends to mouth the line calling it the ‘Mogambo challenge’.
Riz has also been promoting his upcoming superhero flick Venom, which stars Tom Hardy in the title role. So obviously Riz jumped on the opportunity to make the Dark Knight Rises star deliver Mogambo’s classic dialogue.
Earlier Riz had asked talk show host Jimmy Kimmel to take the challenge as well.
Mogambo will drop on 3 October and Venom releases in theatres on 5 October.
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