The Director's Cut Podcast with Islah

I caught up with Disney PIXAR's 'Turning Red' stars Sandra Oh & Rosalie Chiang about Asian parents, growing up with Disney & representation in the new movie!  Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda! Directed by Academy Award® winner Domee Shi (Pixar short “Bao”) and produced by Lindsey Collins “Turning Red launches exclusively on Disney+ on March 11, 2022.

You may remember him from 'Four Lions' but now he's back in BAFTA award winning movie Ali & Ava. Mistah Islah caught up with the talented actor about his nomination alongside big names like Will Smith, Leonardo Dicaprio, Mahershala Ali and flying the South Asian / Muslim flag in the industry!

The famous AI from 'Andromeda' or more recently Talia Al-Ghul (aka Batman's baby momma) from the hit CW series 'Arrow' & Bree Wheeler in 'Chucky'...ladies and gents it's Lexa Doig! We connected through Twitter one day (I fanboy'd) and this podcast definitely solidified our frien-ternet-ship! Honestly one of the most humble, caring and insightful human being. We spoke all about acting in her early days, her thoughts on representation on-screen, using her platform to speak out against injustices, Martial Arts & stunt work and if she'd ever return to the Arrowverse again...

Every superhero has a loving Mother (apart from Shazam! in the DCEU) and this right here is award winning actress Fala Chen, she sat down with me to talk all things Marvel, Represent-Asian, Tai Chi & blushing around Tony Leung!

I managed to catch up with the new Marvel legend himself, Simu Liu, about the brand new 'Marvel Studios Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings'! We talked about the MCU, teaming up with Spider-Man, Martial Arts & Chinese representation in the movie! 

Channel 4's 'The Circle' finalist, YouTube comedian & all round loving human being Hashu aka Smash Bengali sits down with me to talk about chasing a dream outside the norm of Bengali culture, how difficult the grind can be, family pressures and support, sharks in the industry & how The Circle changed his life!

Oscar nominee & star of 'Venom', 'Star Wars: Rogue One', 'Four Lions' & most recently 'Sound of Metal' - Riz Ahmed - talks about representation, breaking through in the industry and being the 1st British South-Asian Muslim to be nominated for an Oscar! A very motivational episode for ethnic creatives out there!

Bismillah it's Mistah Islah with a SPECIAL episode as I speak to the multi-award winning star of over 60 Bollywood and Hollywood movies, Winner of Miss World 2000 - Priyanka Chopra Jonas! About her new book 'Unfinished: A Memoir', filming in London during lockdown and pushing the Indian Community into the mainstream with her new movie 'White Tiger' on Netflix!

She won a BAFTA one night, and was teaching a GCSE masterclass the next morning! Mehreen Baig joins me on the Director's Cut Podcast Sofa to talk about her journey from Teaching into being one of British TV's most celebrated-presenter-faces! We also talk about the difficulties of pitching ideas to TV Companies as an Ethnic person!

Nikkita Chadha & Ramzan Miah are two multi-talented individuals that Act, Sing, Model AND Dance! (Glee, you missed out!) They're the noteworthy brown faces on ads with big brands and big movies including Aladdin & upcoming Marvel's The Eternals! They sit on the Director's Cut sofa for a chat and teach me some modelling poses!