{"id":8481,"date":"2007-01-08T17:08:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T17:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/01\/08\/bolly-opera\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T17:08:40","slug":"bolly-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/08\/bolly-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolly Opera!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Star director signs up to French Opera<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"252\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SanjayLeelaBhansali%27Honour%27.jpg\"\/>He is known as Bollywood&#8217; most extravagant director producing films with lavish sets and extravagant blockbusters &#8211; now Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been given the honour of producing an opera in one of France&#8217;s leading opera houses.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His last big-hit blockbuster movie, the period drama &#8216;Devdas&#8217; was the reason behind the Theatre du Chatelet&#8217;s appraoch to the leading star, the Times of India reported. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honour&#8221;, he said after news of his impending opera was revealed. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very exhilirating and exciting prospect to use my operatic vision on stage. I&#8217;m already very nervous. It&#8217;s a very lavish production, involving a huge cast and production values,&#8221; he added. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Bhansali will join the likes of Yimou Zhang, director of &#8216;House of Flying Daggers&#8217;, and Woody Allen in producing operas for the theatre.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star director signs up to French Opera He is known as Bollywood&#8217; most extravagant director producing films with lavish sets and extravagant blockbusters &#8211; now Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been given the honour of producing an opera in one of France&#8217;s leading opera houses. &#13; His last big-hit blockbuster movie, the period drama &#8216;Devdas&#8217; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}