{"id":13556,"date":"2016-06-21T14:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2016-06-21T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:15:57","slug":"judi-dench-as-queen-victoria-in-film-on-author-shrabani-basu-book-victoria-abdul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/judi-dench-as-queen-victoria-in-film-on-author-shrabani-basu-book-victoria-abdul\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Adaptation of NRI Author Shrabani Basu\u2019s Book to Star Judi Dench as Queen Victoria in Love with Young Indian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many stories of Queen Victoria in the history of British India. Some are buried in the grave of time while some are immortalized by historians and writers. <strong>The story of Queen Victoria\u2019s controversial relationship with her trusted aide from India in the late 1800s is still alive in NRI journalist and author Shrabani Basu\u2019s book<\/strong> \u201cVictoria &amp; Abdul: The True Story of the Queen\u2019s Closest Confidant\u201d which will soon be adapted into a film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/London-based-NRI-Author-Shrabani-Basus-Book-Victoria-Abdul.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13562 size-full\" title=\"Film Adaptation of NRI Author Shrabani Basu\u2019s Book to Star Judi Dench as Queen Victoria in Love with Young Indian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/London-based-NRI-Author-Shrabani-Basus-Book-Victoria-Abdul.jpg\" alt=\"author Shrabani Basu, actress Judi Dench, filmmaker Stephen Frears, Queen Victoria, British India\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Oscar-winning British actress Judi Dench has been roped in to play Queen Victoria, the Empress of British India<\/strong>, in the upcoming film based on London-based author Shrabani Basu\u2019s book which was published six years ago. Award-winning British filmmaker Stephen Frears will direct the film which is yet to be titled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/calcutta-in-the-1960s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calcutta<\/a><\/span>-born author is happy to know that her book will be adapted into a screenplay for celluloid by none other than Stephen Frears<\/strong> who made <em>The Queen<\/em> on the British Royal Family\u2019s response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 2006.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Author Shrabani Basu\u2019s book \u201cVictoria &amp; Abdul: The True Story of the Queen\u2019s Closest Confidant\u201d pictures <strong>how a 24-year-old handsome Abdul Karim, who was brought from the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/best-local-food-to-eat-in-agra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agra<\/a><\/span> Central Jail to England to wait at tables during Queen Victoria\u2019s Golden Jubilee in 1887, became a personal attendant, Urdu teacher and influencer to the then British Monarch<\/strong> in politically turbulent times and how the royal family responded to their intense relationship.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Victoria &amp; Abdul captures the tender love story of a young Indian Muslim and the then Empress of India; an undefined relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it at a time when independence movement in the subcontinent was gaining momentum. \u2013 <strong>Author Shrabani Basu<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Author Shrabani Basu, a postgraduate in History from Delhi University, was born in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights-to-india-in\/cheap-flights-to-kolkata-ccu\" target=\"_blank\">Kolkata<\/a><\/span> (then Calcutta). She joined The Times of India\u2019s Bombay office as a trainee journalist in 1983 and moved to London in 1987.<\/strong> Since then she has been a correspondent of Kolkata-based leading dailies: The Telegraph and Ananda Bazar Patrika. She combined her love of history with her profession and passion for creative writing in two other books: \u201cSpy Princess\u201d and \u201cFor King and Another Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Travel Beats\u00a0is a digital portal for Indians and NRIs by\u00a0IndianEagle, a leading international travel organization. Travel Beats publishes interesting stories and news about the worldwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/nri-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Community<\/a> in travel, culture, entertainment and lifestyle.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many stories of Queen Victoria in the history of British India. 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