{"id":8652,"date":"2008-12-03T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T12:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/bollywood-directors-campaign-to-rebuild-taj-hotel\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:40:28","slug":"bollywood-directors-campaign-to-rebuild-taj-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/03\/bollywood-directors-campaign-to-rebuild-taj-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood director\u2019s campaign to rebuild Taj Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Vikram Bhatt: \u2018The Taj is India\u2019s heritage\u2019<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"277\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/VikramBhatt_180x232.jpg\"\/>A BOLLYWOOD director has begun a campaign to rebuild Mumbai\u2019s iconic Taj Hotel which was severely damaged during the recent terror attacks in the city.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Leading filmmaker Vikram Bhatt said he would ask everyone in India to donate one rupee to aid restoration of the iconic hotel.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He revealed details of the campaign to BBC Asian Network DJ\u2019s Raj and Pablo. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s just something I thought of last night and the campaign is really in the early stages,\u201d Mr Bhatt said. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m still working on a blueprint \u2013 but the idea is simple, I think all of us in Mumbai should give just one rupee towards the rebuilding of that monument, whether you&#8217;re rich or poor &#8211; all of us can afford that one rupee.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He added the attack on the Taj hotel was an attack on the whole of India. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The Taj is not just a hotel; it&#8217;s the heritage of the city. The hotel was built in the time of the British Raj and it was one of the first icons of independent India,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0&#8220;I think attacking the Taj is attacking the independence and sovereignty of our country and so I think every person in Mumbai should help to rebuild it as a sign of what we feel for our country \u2013 not that Mr Ratan Tata (chairman of the Tata Group that owns the hotel) doesn&#8217;t have the money to build it again but because it&#8217;s our heritage.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikram Bhatt: \u2018The Taj is India\u2019s heritage\u2019 A BOLLYWOOD director has begun a campaign to rebuild Mumbai\u2019s iconic Taj Hotel which was severely damaged during the recent terror attacks in the city. &#13; Leading filmmaker Vikram Bhatt said he would ask everyone in India to donate one rupee to aid restoration of the iconic hotel. [&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-8652","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\/8652","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=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/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=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}