Rahm Without ‘Rahm’: Sufism and the Failure of Mercy in a Pakistani Film Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
Published online on May 10, 2026
Abstract
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The filmmakers Ahmed and Mahmood Jamal have describedRahm, their 2016 Pakistani film based on Shakespeare’sMeasure for Measure(1603), as a critique of fundamentalist elements in their native Pakistan. The Jamal brothers propose Sufism, a mystical form ...
The filmmakers Ahmed and Mahmood Jamal have describedRahm, their 2016 Pakistani film based on Shakespeare’sMeasure for Measure(1603), as a critique of fundamentalist elements in their native Pakistan. The Jamal brothers propose Sufism, a mystical form ...