Overview

• The feature premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival and is drawing high-profile notices.
• Aneil Karia relocates the tragedy to a wealthy South Asian family in contemporary London, recasting Elsinore as a corporation.
• Screenwriter Michael Lesslie’s adaptation trims, reorders, and reallocates Shakespeare’s lines, further centering the story on Hamlet.
• Reviewers highlight vivid touches such as a Hindu death ritual, a South Asian dance staging of the play-within-a-play, a rooftop ghost, and a car-set delivery of “To be or not to be.”
• Critics consistently praise Riz Ahmed’s lead turn while faulting thinly drawn supporting roles—especially Ophelia’s—and Focus Features is slated to release the film later.