Ish ReviewIn Luton, the friendship between two boys, Ish (Farhan Hasnat) and Maram (Yahya Kitana), is put to the test after a nasty run-in with the police. Follow Empire on Google Writer-and-director Imran Perretta’s tender-hearted feature debut Ish is a coming-of-age story to rival (if not outrun) the likes of Scrapper and Aftersun. While his family mourns, Ish seeks emotional refuge with his pal Maram (Yahya Kitana), a slightly more senior kid on the block. Ish expertly tempers a sense of adolescent hope with mounting grown-up pressures. Shot in a nostalgic, melancholic black-and-white by cinematographer Jermaine Canute Edwards, Ish expertly tempers a sense of adolescent hope with mounting grown-up pressures.