{"id":9280,"date":"2015-04-14T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/amar-akbar-and-tony\/"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:53:33","slug":"amar-akbar-and-tony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/amar-akbar-and-tony\/","title":{"rendered":"Amar Akbar  and Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Movie Gets London\u2019s West End Premiere <\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/AAT-Premiere-458x191.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The much anticipated British independent comedy \u2013 Amar Akbar &amp; Tony premiered in London to a star-studded audience at Cineworld Haymarket, in London\u2019s West End. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The evening was hosted by legends of Radio premiere saw stars of stage and screen join the impressive cast line up which included; Rez Kempton (Amar), Martin Delaney(Tony),Karen David (Meera), Laura Aikman (Samantha), Amrita Acharia (Richa) and Goldy Notay (Sonia) and Meera Syal (Honey).<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Celebrity guests included: Kevin Bishop, Michelle Collins, Rebecca Grant, Sunny and Shay Grewall, Mathew Lewis, Gemma Oaten, Seema Pathan, Nikesh Patel, Rishi Rich and Fiona Wade amongst whole a host of other stars who had turned out to support the film and its cast.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><span><em>Amar Akbar &amp; Tony<\/em><strong>, <\/strong>which releases nationwide on Friday 17<sup>th<\/sup> April<strong>,<\/strong> is a romantic comedy drama depicting the lives of three childhood friends in the unique and vibrant landscape of multicultural London.\u00a0 The title is inspired by the 1970\u2019s Bollywood hit \u2018Amar Akbar Anthony\u2019 and also \u2018takes in a spiritual influence from the film.\u2019 says director Atul Malhotra. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A Sikh, Muslim and Irish Catholic take stock of their lives in contemporary London as the film explores the predicaments that face its lead trio. Amar is a Sikh whose promising legal career gets derailed; Akbar is an ambitious charmer with the gift of the gab and some acute observations on life, while Tony constantly finds himself in love with the wrong woman. The 93-minute movie is a serio-comic exploration of ambition and friendship being thwarted by external factors. The film identifiably belongs to the multicultural Britain of the present, and the problems faced by the trio transcend time and place<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie Gets London\u2019s West End Premiere &#13; The much anticipated British independent comedy \u2013 Amar Akbar &amp; Tony premiered in London to a star-studded audience at Cineworld Haymarket, in London\u2019s West End. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; The evening was hosted by legends of Radio premiere saw stars of stage and screen join the impressive cast line [&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-9280","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\/9280","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=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/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=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}