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Most movies made today carry an underlying political message which is inserted in by the views and beliefs of the movie studio and producers who make the film. Unfortunately this is one such movie. The underlying political view the filmmaker wants you to believe in this movie is that the British upper class and monarchy were just a bunch of uneducated nitwits that knew nothing about India's people, religions, and culture-that couldn't tell the difference between hindus and muslims, didn't know anything about India's foods, traditions, culture etc... The movie also tries to give the message that even though the British considered themselves as the epitome of civilization and as Hindus and muslims less civilized, in actuality the opposite is true. It ridicules British culture and tradition and glorifies islam and Islamic culture, like when in the movie the queens is happily amazed when she sees women that are draped in full burqa and she (Queen Victoria) even says in the movie that she thinks a women covered from head to toe in a black burqa looks "dignified". I highly doubt queen Victoria thought that covering women in a full black burqa and pulling them around like cattle looked "dignified". The filmmaker put that in so that he can push his view on people that burqas are actually good and empowering to women, when in reality this couldn't be farther from the truth. This is just one example found in the movie of political messages the filmmaker is trying to push, but only a dimwit would not notice. To sum it up the movie wants to give you the idea that: islam is beautiful and amazing, Christianity is dull and backwards, third world is actually 1st world, and western culture is stupid, boring, and out of touch with the rest of the world. I wish they would make real movies again like they did up until the late 90's when they rarely added in political messages and instead focused on making a well thought out interesting movie for entertainment purposes and not ideological. This is why I don't go to movie theaters anymore or buy any new movies because they all carry a political message nowadays that they try to insert into people's minds instead of just making a movie for entertainment which is what they are supposed to be to begin with.

Did Queen Victoria, head of the church of England, defender of the Christian faith, die in her sins?According to the movie Victoria and Abdul she did exactly that. In her death bed scene there is no Arch Bishop of Canterbury and no mention of Christ or Christianity. In their place is a Sufi Muslim quoting from Rumi with the implied view that Muslims are a peaceful folk and that Victoria died a Muslim with no savior.The movie could have been a good one with superb acting by Judi Dench and many light-hearted and funny scenes but it was flawed by the politically correct author, director, producers, and screen writer who want to push their anachronistic/pc views through a period piece.What a shame that these kind of movies always have to be flawed by faulty worldviews that seem to be always anti-Christian and anti-Western.

2/4/18. What a beautiful and true story of a very unlikely friendship that crosses many cultural borders at the time. Of course, today, this would be just as unlikely as it was then, but it is a true wonder that this story was ever told at all. Does not paint a good picture of Queen Victoria's children who mistreated the aging queen with such disrespect and Abdul with such racist disdain. The true story of what Victoria's children did, expunge any trace of the friendship Victoria had with Abdul, is a cautionary tale of how adult children should not treat their aging parents. It's called parental abuse. Today such a friendship would be fodder for the tabloids, but at least it would have been told. Well done and worth seeing.