{"id":273,"date":"2005-08-12T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2005\/08\/bollywood-and-the-bbc.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:00:41","slug":"bollywood-and-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2005\/08\/bollywood-and-the-bbc.html","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood and the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/shropshire\/films\/bollywood\/index.shtml\">BBC Shropshire Bollywood site<\/a> has movie reviews which I sometimes read. Read with caution, because these reviews sometimes have spoilers. I read a recent one on Viruddh, which had this gem :<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the story unfolds, we learn how the couple blend with each other when carrying out their daily routines,&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I know what the reviewer means by &#8220;blend&#8221; because I have seen the film, else &#8220;blend&#8221; could be, &#8230;er&#8230;. misconstrued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/3466745.stm\">Preity Zinta<\/a> writes a column for the BBC. These columns are very Preiti-centric, and although interesting, she shows no qualities for being chosen to write this, other than her being a big Bollywood star. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think Preiti is good in Hindi films, cute, and acts decently enough. But a writer, she is not.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-112388298765012172?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC Shropshire Bollywood site has movie reviews which I sometimes read. Read with caution, because these reviews sometimes have spoilers. I read a recent one on Viruddh, which had this gem : &#8220;As the story unfolds, we learn how the couple blend with each other when carrying out their daily routines,&#8230;&#8221; Now, I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The BBC Shropshire Bollywood site has movie reviews which I sometimes read. Read with caution, because these reviews sometimes have spoilers. I read a recent one on Viruddh, which had this gem : &#8220;As the story unfolds, we learn how the couple blend with each other when carrying out their daily routines,&#8230;&#8221; Now, I know&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}