The Empress, with dual love stories, an abandoned Indian ayah (nursemaid), Rani Das, trying to make her way in Victorian Britain and Colonialism at its most villainous should offer audiences a ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Empress has four main characters: Rani, Hari, Abdul and Queen Victoria. There are four secondary characters in ...

Sixteen year old Rani Das, ayah (nursemaid) to an English family arrives at ... this new production of The Empress will take you from the rugged gangways of Tilbury docks to the grandeur of Queen ...

The Empress begins as a ship from India approaches ... the most central narrative is that of Rani Das – a 16-year-old ayah who is cruelly dumped by her white, middle-class employers just as ...

Everybody loves Rani Mukherjee. The girl with a million ... If one of these films clicks, we all know who the rightful Empress of Bollwyood will be! harneet_singh@indiatimes.com ...

The latest is Rani of Jhansi, published by Rupa. The earlier works of the 74-year-old author, who studied political science in Paris, include Crown Jewels of Britain and Europe, Sultana and The ...

Derry Girls from the U.K. and Vir Das: Landing from India tied in the Comedy category taking the prize. Germany’s The Empress won in the Drama series category. Karla Souza took the award in the ...

Tanika Gupta’s ‘The Empress’ is such a quintessentially ... and Dadabhai Nairoji (Simon Rivers), plus Gupta’s fictional protagonist Rani Das (Tanya Katyal), and then for good measure ...