By: Sarwar Alam
Costumes worn by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench and Indian actor Ali Fazal in a new film about Queen Victoria’s special bond with an Indian servant during the British Raj have been put on display at a heritage site in the Isle of Wight this week. Victoria & Abdul, to be released in the UK in September and in India in October, is based on a book by British Indian journalist and author Shrabani Basu. It tells the tale of an unlikely friendship between the then Empress of India and one of her Indian subjects Abdul Karim during the 19th century. The…
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