{"id":14360,"date":"2016-05-24T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=14360"},"modified":"2016-05-24T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:49:00","slug":"models-can-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/models-can-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Models Can Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Model-turned-actress, Waluscha De Sousa praises leading stars Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, saying that the Bollywood stars have expelled the notions that \u201cmodels can\u2019t act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After modelling from the age of 16, receiving the \u2018Miss Body Beautiful\u2019 title in 2000 and then putting her professional life on hold for the sake of her family, Waluscha recently decided to leap into Hindi filmdom, starting her career as an actress opposite superstar Shah Rukh Khan with the film \u201cFan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Waluscha declares: \u201cA lot of young girls use modelling as a stepping stone into Bollywood\u2026we have Deepika and Priyanka, who have already broken this notion that models cannot act. For me, it has been a great transition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Model-turned-actress, Waluscha De Sousa praises leading stars Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, saying that the Bollywood stars have expelled the notions that \u201cmodels can\u2019t act.\u201d After modelling from the age of 16, receiving the \u2018Miss Body Beautiful\u2019 title in 2000 and then putting her professional life on hold for the sake of her family, Waluscha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desi_masala","category-desixpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}