[6] [7] On 5 August 2016, it was announced that Ali Fazal would play Victoria's confidant Abdul Karim, while the film would be co-produced by Working Title Films and BBC Films, and co-financed by BBC and Focus Features. [8] Focus also handles U.S. distribution rights, while Universal Pictures International handles all other countries.

Victoria & Abdul: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard. Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Ali Fazal. Actor: Victoria & Abdul. Ali Fazal is a renowned Indian model and actor born in New Delhi and brought up in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. ... (2017), in which he played the role of Abdul Karim, an Indian servant in the British-American film. This movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. In 2018, he appeared in the sequel Happy ...

Sep 25, 2017 · That movie, Victoria and Abdul, starring Judi Dench as the Queen and Bollywood fixture Ali Fazal as Karim, opened in limited cities Sept. 22 and expands in the coming weeks.

Oct 4, 2017 · Karim (Ali Fazal) is so saintly that he comes across as two dimensional and boring. Was Queen Victoria aware of the racist attitudes in the palace regarding her relationship with Karim? Yes. This was confirmed in a letter written by her assistant private secretary Fritz Ponsonby, who complained of her preferential treatment of Karim. He ...

Ali Fazal (born 15 October 1986 [2]) is an Indian actor who works primarily in Hindi and English films and series. He made his screen debut with a small role in the English film The Other End of the Line (2008) before appearing in the American television miniseries Bollywood Hero (2009). [3] He had his first Hindi film release with a supporting role in 3 Idiots (2009), and went on to star in ...

Sep 22, 2017 · Karim was the only servant to ascend to the queen’s inner circle since the death of her Scottish confidante John Brown, who helped fill a personal void in Victoria’s life after her beloved ...

Sep 20, 2017 · Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim in Victoria and Abdul. And while the story takes place long before Dench’s reign began, Fazal thinks the timing is just right for it to ...

Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young prison clerk from Agra, British Raj, is instructed to travel to England for Queen Victoria's (Dame Judi Dench's) Golden Jubilee in 1887 to present her with a Mohur, a gold coin which has been minted as a token of appreciation from British-ruled India. The Queen, who is lonely and tired of her fawning courtiers ...

Sep 15, 2017 · When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. ... Judi Dench, Ali Fazal. Director ...