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Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 08.25 EDT Mahmood Jamal, who has died aged 72, was one of the pioneers of multicultural television in Britain. As a producer of films and documentaries Mahmood sought to bring talent and material from minority-ethnic communities to the screen. The launch of Channel 4 in 1982, and its remit to feature programmes and concerns that the BBC and ITV had not, led Mahmood and his brother, Ahmed Jamal, to form the all-Asian Retake Film and Video Collective, the first of its kind in the UK. Two years later, while continuing to work with Retake, Mahmood formed his own production company, Epicflo, and began to make films set in, and of interest to, British-Asian communities. ....
Mahmood Jamal 1947-2020. Photo courtesy author On Dec 23, 2020, the poet, screenwriter and film producer Mahmood Jamal passed away at London’s Royal Free Hospital. He had been receiving treatment for prostate cancer, and had been admitted for investigations after intestinal bleeding was discovered. There he was diagnosed with Covid-19, placed in intensive care and, after a few days, died. Mahmood was the second son of Maulana Jamal Mian of Farangi Mahal (d. 2012) and the grandson of Maulana Abdul Bari (d. 1926), a leader of the Khilafat Movement. His mother was Asar, daughter of Shah Hayat Ahmed, the Sajjada Nasheen of Rudauli Sharif in Bara Banki, Awadh. ....