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 is visited by the ghost of his dead father who asks him to avenge his death and follow the trail of blood all the way to his supposed favorite uncle, Claudius.

To cap it all, Claudius has gone and married his late brother’s wife.

None of that’s new. We know that story. We’ve seen the stage productions. Some were godawful, but in my time, I have seen Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Branagh, Ben Wishaw, Rory Kinnear and a handfu

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