Man Like Mobeen

Man Like Mobeen S01 complete (720p HD, soft Eng subs)

All Mobeen wants to do is follow his faith, lead a good life, and make sure his sister fulfills her potential. But can he juggle this, with his criminal past always chasing him?


E01


Mobeen receives a surprise visit from the armed police, who arrest Eight on suspicion of supplying drugs to school children in Small Heath - based on the description of an "Asian male in tracksuit bottoms".


The real culprit is Shahid, a local dealer who has enlisted the help of his mum’s cousin’s cousin - 14 year old Kareema - to move his gear. But Mobeen refuses to snitch. When Kareema asks Mobeen’s little sister Aks to help her hide the drugs from the police, she follows her brother’s example.


However when Mobeen finds out, he has no other option than to go looking for Shahid - but will his actions have more far reaching consequences?




E02 Wifey Riddim


When Mobeen learns that his little sister Aks has been suspended from school for fighting, he realises that he might not be the best role model to parent her.


So when he bumps into two notorious uncles after Friday prayers, they suggest that an arranged marriage might bring a much needed female perspective into Aks’s life. Initially Mobeen quashes the idea, however upon reflection with best friends Eight and Nate, he comes to the realisation that arranged marriage might very well be the answer to all his problems.


Uncle Habib arranges for him to meet Khadijah and her father, however things don’t quite go to plan when ‘weird’ Uncle Shady also turns up to the meeting.


E03 Upper Room


Eight has gone missing, so Mobeen and Nate go on a mission to find him. On discovering him hiding in an abandoned den deep in a Small Heath wood, Eight reveals that his beloved Dadha is dying and wants to see the boys one last time before he passes to the upper room.


When the friends visit him on his death bed, they are disturbed to hear that Dadha has been keeping a dark secret and needs the boys to help him visit the family video shop one last time before he dies. After a terrifying escape, the boys encounter something they definitely weren’t expecting.


E04 H-ALTRight


Staring hate, violence and societal fractures in the face, Mobeen and his crew see the far right in their truest form at an anti-Islam demonstration. After Aks throws a flask and hits the leader Robbie Worthington square in the face, Mobeen takes the blame and is subsequently arrested.


However, he is accidently placed in the same police van as Robbie. As Mobeen and Robbie go head to head inside the van, outside the van (and much to Aks’s dismay) Eight and Nate desperately need to go to the toilet but can’t escape the police cordon. Eventually they decide to brave the toilet in the only pub for miles around, which is liberally adorned with St George’s flags.


(with soft subtitles)

First broadcast: December 2017

Duration: 20 minutes per episode