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Connecting Queen Victoria and Shivaji
Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli continued to the last to pillory his enemies in barely disguised caricatures: the character St Barbe in ''Endymion'' is widely seen as a parody of Thackeray, who had offended Disraeli more than thirty years earlier by lampooning him in '' Punch'' as "Codlingsby".{{refn|James D Merritt advanced an alternative theory in 1968, proposing Thomas Carlyle as Disraeli's target.|group= n}} Disraeli left an unfinished novel in which the priggish central character, Falconet, is unmistakably a caricature of Gladstone.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Indian popular Marathi politician Bal Thackeray's father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray was an admirer of William, the India-born British writer; Keshav later changed his surname from Panvelkar to "Thackeray".
Bal Thackeray
Indian politician
He was accorded a state funeral at Shivaji Park, which generated some controversy and resulted from demands made by Shiv Sena.
Dadabhai Naoroji
Such was the respect commanded by him that assertive nationalists could not oppose his candidature and the rift was avoided for the time being. Naoroji was a mentor to Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Indian independence activist (1856-1920)
Students often would celebrate Hindu and national glory and address political issues; including patronage of ''Swadeshi'' goods. In 1895, Tilak founded the Shri Shivaji Fund Committee for the celebration of "Shiv Jayanti", the birth anniversary of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire.
The project also had the objective of funding the reconstruction of the tomb (Samadhi) of Shivaji at Raigad Fort.
For this second objective, Tilak established the Shri Shivaji Raigad Smarak Mandal along with Senapati Khanderao Dabhade II of Talegaon Dabhade, who became the founder President of the Mandal.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Abdul Karim (the Munshi)
The 2017 feature film '' Victoria & Abdul'', directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ali Fazal as Abdul Karim and Judi Dench as Queen Victoria, offers a fictionalised version of the relationship between Karim and the Queen.
Ali Fazal
In addition, he has committed to star opposite Shriya Saran in Prakash Raj's romantic comedy ''Tadka''.
Shriya Saran
Indian actress (born 1982)
In 2007, she was chosen to play the lead female role opposite Rajinikanth in S. Shankar's ''Sivaji: The Boss'' after Aishwarya Rai rejected the role due to busy schedules.
Rajinikanth
Indian actor (born 1950)
Rajinikanth was born as Shivaji Rao Gaekwad on 12 December 1950 in a Marathi family in Bangalore, Mysore State (present day Karnataka).{{Sfn|Ramachandran|2012|loc=chpt.
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Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1761 to 1818
Queen Charlotte was played by Frances White in the 1979 television series '' Prince Regent'', Helen Mirren in the 1994 film '' The Madness of King George,'' and by Guyanese-British actress Golda Rosheuvel in the 2020 Netflix original series Bridgerton.
Helen Mirren
English actor
Mirren's only film of 2014 was the comedy-drama '' The Hundred-Foot Journey'' opposite the Indian actor Om Puri.
Om Puri
Indian actor (1950-2017)
A fellow NSD student who became a long-term friend, Naseeruddin Shah, encouraged Puri to follow him to the Film and Television Institute of India in Poona (present-day Pune).<ref name=nsd2>{{cite web
Along with Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil, he was among the main actors who starred in what was then referred to as art films such as ''Bhavni Bhavai'' (1980), '' Sadgati'' (1981), ''Ardh Satya'' (1982), ''Mirch Masala'' (1986) and ''Dharavi'' (1992).
Naseeruddin Shah
In 1989, he acted as the Maratha King Shivaji in another eponymous television series '' Bharat Ek Khoj'' based on Jawaharlal Nehru's book ''The Discovery of India''.
