{"id":105392,"date":"2017-09-02T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T04:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=105392"},"modified":"2017-09-02T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T04:21:47","slug":"no-saffron-middle-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/no-saffron-middle-path\/","title":{"rendered":"No saffron-its middle path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actor Kamal Haasan, who has kept fans guessing about his political plans, made no announcements today either but shared what his politics will be like. &#8220;Not saffron,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 62-year-old had just emerged from lunch with Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, with whom he is known share a warm rapport..Was he considering joining the Left?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My colour is obviously seen over the 40 years I have been working in cinema, definitely it&#8217;s not saffron,&#8221; Kamal Haasan said, but also added, &#8220;I want to be in the middle of things, not leaning to any side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He talked politics with the 73-year-old Communist leader and said he had taken advice from Chief Minister Vijayan, who he admires.<br \/>\n&#8220;I will meet more politicians before I make my call,&#8221; said the actor, who wore a dark coloured shirt and mundu, or traditional garment in Kerala worn around the waist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Kamal Haasan, who has kept fans guessing about his political plans, made no announcements today either but shared what his politics will be like. &#8220;Not saffron,&#8221; he said. The 62-year-old had just emerged from lunch with Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, with whom he is known share a warm rapport..Was he considering joining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[3168,350,1529,1344,633,53119,43634,53120,1287,38005],"class_list":["post-105392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-aiadmk","tag-bjp","tag-dmk","tag-kamal-haasan","tag-kerala","tag-kerala-chief-minister-pinarayi-vijayan","tag-political-entry","tag-saffron-is-not-my-colour-kamal","tag-thiruvananthapuram","tag-versatile-actor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/kamal-hasan-in-pawan-kalyan-political-route_b_0603171232.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}