Victoria and Abdul

What is the setting?

Shrabani Basu

Stephen Frears

"Each person can have his own vision of India and England, or Victoria and his
reign, this is just one of the many stories that can be told, we have tried to show
Queen Victoria as no one had ever seen her before“
 Main characters Author
Abdul Karim

This character is from British India, an Indian territory but

it was ruled by Great Britain.
He is a tall person, also he has long and black hair. Every
time he appears in the scene he uses a representative
suit from India, although in a special scene, he wears a
Scottish suit that the queen had given him. Abdul Karim is
an educated, sincere, hard-working, honest, but poor
Hindu who works as an errand boy at the British
consulate. In that place lives the queen and due to its Ali Fazal
physical characteristics and its place of origin, he is critical
for all the people who there except for the queen.
QUEEN VICTORIA

According to the context of the film, She is an old woman

Actress
Queen Victoria is 81 years old and is the Queen of
England and the Empress of India where she lives in a
monarchical palace. Also, she is the monarch who has
ruled the longest in the history of that country.

In some parts of the film she is kind, delicate, sincere.

However, on some occasions she has a bad character, is
short tempered, greedy, and clings irritably to power.
The queen victory is the person who accepts the Abdul
Karim to have a better life, thanks to his help

Judith Olivia Dench

 What is the story about?

Based on real events, the story of this movie start in India, conquered by
the British Empire. He is selected with another fellow countryman at
random by Queen Victoria's secretary to serve as an exotic royal footman
in the queen's court. When he arrived, Karim stands out as a sincere
young man and achieve to capture the attention of the already elderly
Queen Victoria of England and gain their trust in a way almost no other
had done. She named Munsh or Royal Master. In this process, Karim
must endure being deeply discriminated against by the circle close to the
queen. That’s because ministers indicate that Karim is a poor peasant of
low lineage and that he must be returned with dishonor to his
subcontinent.
Referencias
• https://www.elblogdeyes.com/resena-la-pelicula-victoria-abdul-
victoria-and-abdul-2017/
• https://www.20minutos.es/cine/cartelera/pelicula/35884/la-reina-
victoria-y-abdul/
• http://www.elespectadorimaginario.com/la-reina-victoria-y-abdul/
• https://www.lahiguera.net/cinemania/pelicula/6956/sinopsis.php