Bard meets Bhagvad Gita in modern retelling of Hamlet

Hamlet stars Riz Ahmed and Morfydd Clark on their "urgent and exciting" Shakespeare adaptation "We brought this visceral first-person energy to it"

Big Screen Spotlight | In a big year for the Bard, the latest adaptation of Hamlet is doing things differently

Bard meets Bhagvad Gita in modern retelling of Hamlet

A NEW film starring Riz Ahmed as Hamlet, which is set in a British south Asian family, makes it more believable and “feels real”, the actor said.Ahmed, 43, plays the titular role in a fresh adaptation of Shakespeare’s trage­dy, directed by Aneil Karia, and featuring as co-stars Art Malik (Claudius), Sheeba Chadha (Gertrude), Morfydd Clark (Ophelia), Joe Alwyn (Laertes) and Timo­thy Spall (Polonius). In a scene from Hamlet© Tristan Fewings/Getty …