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"Victoria & Abdul" (2017), where Abdul begins teaching the Queen Urdu and is officially promoted to "Munshi" (Teacher).
Transcript
00:00I want you to teach me Indian.
00:01Indian?
00:02Hindu, whatever it is you speak.
00:04Why would you like to learn Hindi, Your Majesty?
00:06Well, I am Empress of India.
00:08I can't teach you Hindi.
00:09Why have I not?
00:10You are the Empress of India.
00:11You should learn Urdu, the language of the Mughals.
00:14There are a thousand languages in India.
00:15You write like this.
00:19But in Urdu, you write like this.
00:22I am Rani.
00:24I am the Queen.
00:25I see.
00:26He is teaching her Hindu.
00:31I think you will find it is Urdu, the Muslim version.
00:34Oh my goodness me.
00:35Bertie!
00:36Mother!
00:37Are you spying on me?
00:38I have no privacy here.
00:39Sir Henry, I would like to go with Abdul to Glassal Shield.
00:42Glassal Shield.
00:43Alone?
00:49Oh, to be by oneself.
00:51Live a simple, rudimentary existence.
00:53Well, we would like you to be the Queen's Munshi.
00:56I am only a servant, Your Majesty.
00:58A servant cannot be a Munshi.
00:59Well, you are a servant no longer.
01:01You are my teacher.
01:02You will teach me Urdu and the Koran and anything else you can think of.
01:06There is a journalist.
01:07Remember that he has a man here.
01:12I have a dog on this.
01:13He is a man that is an ordinary man, has a man near home.
01:14He is a man where...!
01:15No he is a worker.
01:16Your husband looks like a man to be a friend.
01:17He is a man at Perlman's.
01:18His wife does not eat, or she will be an exile.
01:19He is a man who I am.
01:20He is a man who is a man who he is.
01:21He is a man who has a man who is a man.
01:23The black man, who is a man who is a man who has a man who is a man.
01:24Dianne, to be a man who is a man who is a man who is a man.
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