
Viceroy's House
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- 2017
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Oi! Jeet! What took you so long?
This is what I imagine
England looks like.
England is all slums
and bombsites.
- You know why they're letting this go?
- No.
The war has exhausted them.
They can't afford to keep us.
Careful, she'll hear you.
Queen Victoria, Empress of India.
She never even set a foot here.
Now Mountbatten sahib
can finally take his great-grandmother
back home.
This is the new recruit, Jeet Kumar.
He's Punjabi, like me.
From my village near Lahore.
I have known him since he was a boy.
Very good, sir, very capable.
It is a great honour
to be in Viceroy's House.
I spoke with your last employer
on the telephone this morning.
The Governor of Punjab expressed
You'll be working with Mr Gupta
in the inner circle.
We are responsible for the personal
care of the Viceroy.
It is a position of great trust,
you understand?
Yes, sir.
A privilege.
Mountbatten sahib is a heroic man.
He freed Burma.
Indeed.
Now he has come to free India.
You think you Indians are ready
to run your own civil service?
Courts of law?
Your own armed forces?
We've learnt from the best, sir.
I have chosen you, not because of
your vast experience,
but because The Honourable
Pamela Mountbatten is 18
and might appreciate your youth.
But what about my duties here?
This is an honour I am giving you.
Yes, ma'am.
The men translate for statesmen while
we translate chitchat for English child.
I hear she's friends with
Princess Elizabeth.
Protocol - stand to attention
when they pass.
Then she'll be looking down
her long Mountbatten nose at...
Oi, sala, move.
Stop staring at them.
Aalia?
Sorry, miss. My friend is new.
He doesn't know the protocol yet.
Aalia, we're late.
Wait, sala. Who is she?
A Hindu boy like you
and a Muslim girl?
I knew her father when he was in jail
in Lahore.
You started out as a policeman?
Yes, sir. I have been under-valet
for two years.
Why did you leave your job?
I was working in a jail, sir.
Many of our leaders
were in prison there.
I found myself unable to turn keys, sir.
And yet...
you'd work for the British Viceroy?
He will not be Viceroy for long, sir.
Freedom is coming.
Better to be close to power and watch
How else will we step in
when our time comes?
What's that? Look, Mizzy.
What can you see?
What can you see?
That's more like it.
Stop hogging the mirror, Daddy.
You know, the Aussies called him
a beaut.
And who can deny it?
Churchill called this
the worst job in the world.
Well, he's wrong.
Burma was the worst job in the world.
You're giving a nation back to its people.
How bad can it be?
Churchill was wrong about Gandhi too.
- What did he call him?
- A half-naked fakir.
Yes, British Empire brought to
its knees by a man in a loin cloth.
Poor Winston.
He's walking around like a chap
who's swallowed a wasp.
Well, he is part of the past, darling.
You're bringing the future.
We are.
Well...
Then let's not make a mess of it.
Attention!
Your Excellency.
Not for much longer.
Welcome. You know Lord Ismay,
Chief of Staff.
- Pug, good to see you.
- Glad to be on the team.
Welcome to the infernal heat, my dear.
- Lady Wavell.
- Dickie.
I must say, I think it's a little shabby,
the way Whitehall's ousted you.
- Sir? One photo, sir?
- I was always Churchill's man
and now Atlee's Labour government
has swept the board.
Lord Louis, what do you hope
to achieve?
I have been given a very specific task.
I am to be the last Viceroy of India
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