Shrabani Basu
TITLE: Victoria & Abdul | Spy Princess | THE MYSTERY OF THE PARSEE LAWYER
AGENT: Valerie Hoskins
PRODUCER: Working Title for Focus Features
The story of the unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim. Abdul has arrived from India to to participate in the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
As their friendship deepens, the queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes, joyfully reclaiming her humanity.
AGENT: Valerie Hoskins
PRODUCER:
Spy Princess is the story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of Tipu Sultan, who became a secret agent during the Second World War. She became the first woman radio operator to be infiltrated into occupied France in 1943 and worked under the code name 'Madeleine.' As her circuit collapsed around her, she remained the last link with London and refused to abandon her post despite the dangers. However, she was betrayed and arrested by the Germans and shot in Dachau Concentration Camp. Britain has posthumously awarded her the George Cross for her extraordinary bravery, and France honoured her with the Croix de Guerre. The fascinating biography traces the story of Noor Inayat Khan and looks at the spirit that moved her.
AGENT: VALERIE HOSKINS
PRODUCER:
In the village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham, someone is mutilating horses. Someone is also sending threatening letters to the vicarage, where the vicar, Shahpur Edalji, is a Parsi convert to Christianity and the first Indian to have a parish in England. His son George – quiet, socially awkward and the only boy at school with distinctly Indian features – grows up into a successful barrister, till he is improbably linked to and then prosecuted for the above crimes in a case that left many convinced that justice hadn't been served.
When he is released early, his conviction still hangs over him. Having lost faith in the police and the legal system, George Edalji turns to the one man he believes can clear his name – the one whose novels he spent his time reading in prison, the creator of the world's greatest detective. When he writes to Arthur Conan Doyle asking him to meet, Conan Doyle agrees.
