{"id":8586,"date":"2008-10-08T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/08\/apology-sought-from-actress-natalie-portman\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:38:09","slug":"apology-sought-from-actress-natalie-portman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/08\/apology-sought-from-actress-natalie-portman\/","title":{"rendered":"Apology sought from actress Natalie Portman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Music video \u2018mocks\u2019 religion, say Hindus<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"223\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/NataliePortmanCarmensite_232x180.jpg\"\/>HOLLYWOOD actress Natalie Portman has been urged to apologise to the Hindu community after appearing in a video they say mocks their religion.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Oscar nominated actress appeared in Venezuelan-American musician Devendra Banhart\u2019s video for the song Carmensita.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Portman portrays a princess who must be rescued from an evil king by a bearded prince, played by <span>Banhart. In the end, Portman&#8217;s character is reincarnated as an octopus. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Leading Hindu groups have called for the actress to issue an apology saying Hindu concepts and symbols used in the video should \u201cnot be thrown around loosely for dramatic effects\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cAlthough the apology might not completely undo the hurt sentiments of the community, but it might help heal somewhat the pain of Hindu populace of the world,\u201d Rajan Zed said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe welcome Hollywood immersing in Hinduism but they must take it seriously and be respectful,\u201d he added. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music video \u2018mocks\u2019 religion, say Hindus HOLLYWOOD actress Natalie Portman has been urged to apologise to the Hindu community after appearing in a video they say mocks their religion. &#13; The Oscar nominated actress appeared in Venezuelan-American musician Devendra Banhart\u2019s video for the song Carmensita. &#13; Portman portrays a princess who must be rescued from [&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-8586","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\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/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=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}