{"id":12144,"date":"2016-01-22T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:07:28","slug":"from-khan-to-corrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/from-khan-to-corrie\/","title":{"rendered":"From Khan to Corrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhavna Limbachia, better known as Alia Khan from BBC\u2019s hit series \u2018Citizen Khan\u2019, is set to make her \u2018Coronation Street\u2019 debut next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Preston-born actress joins the rest of the Weatherfield residents as Rana, an old university friend of Alya\u2019s, Played by Saira Khan.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not long before the new arrival gets settled, with her sights firmly set on Zeedan, Alya\u2019s brother, as a potential love interest.<\/p>\n<p>Corrie Producer Stuart Blackburn adds: \u201cRana is sharp, funny, utterly gorgeous and a little manipulative. She&#8217;s a girl who likes to get her own way and when she sets her sights on something, or someone&#8230;well, Zeedan better have his wits about him!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talking about her new role Bhavna said, \u201cI\u2019m absolutely thrilled to be joining the show. Being a proud Northerner \u2013 it\u2019s a dream come true!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viewers will get their first glimpse of Bhavna in her new role on Friday 19 February!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhavna Limbachia, better known as Alia Khan from BBC\u2019s hit series \u2018Citizen Khan\u2019, is set to make her \u2018Coronation Street\u2019 debut next month. The Preston-born actress joins the rest of the Weatherfield residents as Rana, an old university friend of Alya\u2019s, Played by Saira Khan. It\u2019s not long before the new arrival gets settled, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,54,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desi_masala","category-desixpress","category-tv-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}