Ahmedabad Times

British actor and rapper Rizwan Ahmed is again on the screens with a brand new present ‘Bait’. The 43-year-old Academy Award winner has been selling his much-loved work in a press tour that has now gone viral with one video. In a session with Juggernaut, Ahmed claimed that being a South Asian is like ‘being in a spy thriller’. “We get it free of charge,” he mentioned. Ahmed who stars as the principle lead Shah Latif in his newest, mentioned that when Jordan Peele made ‘Get Out’ he mentioned that being Black in America is like being in a horror film. He mentioned his thesis on the scenario was that “being Brown within the West is definitely like being caught in a spy thriller.” He claimed brown folks within the area had been the topic of suspicion and surveillance continuously together with being chased. Furthermore, he added that individuals had been left chasing the approval of the natives whereas additionally being chased by their interior critic and the voices they’ve internalised. “In order that’s type of one of many issues I wished to play with within the present,” he shared. Bait is a six-episode sequence the place a rapper turned actor finds himself in competition to interchange Daniel Craig as the brand new 007, whereas being embroiled in a disaster. Ahmed’s feedback ring true in an atmosphere the place hate in the direction of immigrants, South Asians and Indians particularly has been on the rise within the West. In America, a current survey by the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace revealed that one in 4 People has been known as a slur. The report described US because the “epicentre of anti-Indian digital racism,” whereas revealing that this led to at least one in 5 respondents shying away from carrying bindis and tilaks to keep away from in-person discrimination. In Britain, a London police report confirmed South Asians had been the second most focused group in 2025, with 35 reported incidents, marking a 105.9% improve in instances from the earlier 12 months.