“I want to bring all the parts of myself,” Riz Ahmed said of wearing Prada’s version of the traditional garment at the premiere of his new movie.
“A kurta by any other name is just as dope,” the British-Pakistani actor-musician Riz Ahmed said last week, speaking from his home base in London.
Mr. Ahmed was referring to a flowing long shirt that’s more ubiquitous than a hoodie in many South Asian communities, although one that is seldom spotted at movie premieres beyond the reaches of Bollywood.
Yet there, in early December, was the inimitable Mr. Ahmed at the Los Angeles premiere of the new genre-bending film “Encounter” (sci-fi meets melodrama meets apocalyptic
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