Noor Inayat Khan was not what one would expect of a British spy. She was a princess, having been born into royalty in India; a Muslim, whose father was a Sufi preacher; a writer, mainly of short ...

Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto is set to star in and executive produce Spy Princess, a limited series based on Shrabani Basu’s Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, the definitive ...

Film rights to the real-life spy thriller by author Shrabani Basu have been acquired by LA-Mumbai based filmmakers Zafar Hai and Tabrez Noorani, who was line producer on “Slumdog Millionaire.” By Nyay ...

Indian-Thai actress and writer Almanya Narula makes her LA stage debut as Noor Inayat Khan: Indian princess, British spy, Gestapo enemy #1. The solo show is backed by an all-female South Asian ...

Britain is honoring an Indian princess, Noor Inayat Khan, who spied for the UK during WWII and was captured after parachuting into France behind enemy lines. She died in a Nazi concentration camp.

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But she was exactly what Britain’s military intelligence needed in 1943. Khan, whose name was in the news in Britain recently as a proposed new face of the £50 note, was 25 when war was declared in ...

Hetreed will pen the adaptation based on the book, and Basu will serve as a consultant on the series. Noor was the first female wireless operator sent into occupied France in 1943 – a role with a life ...