Breaking Baz @Telluride: Riz Ahmed And His Longtime Collaborators Bring Hard-Edged, South Asian Flavor To ‘Hamlet’ 

EXCLUSIVE: Riz Ahmed was after the Crown Jewels. Along with filmmaker Aneil Karia and screenwriter Michael Lesslie, he wanted to take Hamlet, the most iconic of British plays, and do it about Britain today from the perspective of South Asian Hindu culture. It’s their up-to-the-minute version of Shakespeare’s centuries-old tale about a troubled Danish prince who […]