{"id":12153,"date":"2016-01-22T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=12153"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:36:38","slug":"director-nambiar-annoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/director-nambiar-annoys\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Nambiar Annoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wazir director Bejoy Nambiar may have ruffled a few feathers with recent remarks about Big B\u2019s character in his up-coming psychological thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Disabled Rights Group (DRG) has openly condemned Nambiar for negative comments he made during an interview, where he commented on Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s portrayal of a wheel-chair bound chess grandmaster.<\/p>\n<p>He stated: \u201cCasting Mr. Bachchan, who has got such a strong persona, and limiting him in a wheelchair, was a big task for us to get used to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Organisation, lead by disability rights activist Javed Abibi, issued a statement saying: \u201cNambiar\u2019s comments are disparaging and extremely condescending towards people with disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12155\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12155 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"farhan-akhtar-story-+-fb_647_010916012301\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301-50x31.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301-75x47.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/farhan-akhtar-story-fb_647_010916012301.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With Abidi adding: \u201cI\u2019m very much a wheelchair user and so is Stephen Hawking! Neither are we \u2018constrained\u2019, nor \u2018limited\u2019 in any which way whatsoever, for god\u2019s sake. I am extremely shocked to read Nambiar\u2019s statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DRG has ordered Nambiar to \u201cimmediately retract his statement\u201d and \u201coffer an unqualified apology to India\u2019s 70 million disabled citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wazir director Bejoy Nambiar may have ruffled a few feathers with recent remarks about Big B\u2019s character in his up-coming psychological thriller. Disabled Rights Group (DRG) has openly condemned Nambiar for negative comments he made during an interview, where he commented on Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s portrayal of a wheel-chair bound chess grandmaster. He stated: \u201cCasting Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,54,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desi_masala","category-desixpress","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153","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=12153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}