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25 Years Later, Shakespeare's Most Popular Revenge Epic Gets An Intoxicating Makeover

Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia break down the gutsy changes that make their 'Hamlet' stand out.

Inverse · Apr 9

Riz Ahmed’s British south-Asian Hamlet is a moody tale of grief and shady family business

For Shakespeare’s Hamlet “the world is out of joint”. In screen writer Michael Lesslie’s collage of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Aneil Karia, Riz Ahmed’s intense, grief-wrecked Hamlet pays a high price as he tries to “set it right” in a corrupt corporate world.

The Conversation · Feb 5