Overview

• Ahmed stars and produces a contemporary adaptation developed over roughly 14 years with director Aneil Karia and writer Michael Lesslie.
• The film relocates the drama to London’s British South Asian community, weaving in Hindi dialogue, rituals and a corporate Elsinore.
• Ahmed recasts “To be or not to be” as a call to action, delivering the soliloquy during a high-speed drive against traffic.
• Festival rollout includes Telluride and a Sept. 5 TIFF premiere, with early interviews emphasizing grief, powerlessness and faith over delusion.
• Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn, Art Malik, Timothy Spall, Sheeba Chaddha and Avijit Dutt co-star, and one outlet lists Aug. 30 and a 114-minute runtime that other reports do not confirm.