{"id":107248,"date":"2017-09-24T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=107248"},"modified":"2017-09-24T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T04:37:08","slug":"basanthi-wants-to-act-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/basanthi-wants-to-act-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Basanthi wants to act again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Basanthi of Bollywood Hema Malini is one of those few former leading ladies of Indian cinema who still have a huge fan following.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For industry newcomers, the original Dream Girl remains someone to emulate. However, Hema herself wishes that she were a lead actor in today\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 68-year-old actor, who has been in some of the biggest blockbusters in Bollywood \u2014says jokingly, \u201cToday, the payments are so huge, that I wish I were an actress at this time! I was getting peanuts in comparison. But whatever I did 20-30 years back is paying me back now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77487 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hem.jpg\" alt=\"Hemamalini drinks-did she die?\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hem.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hem-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also opens up on how she sees actors from her generation and the current crop: \u201cThey are young and like to enjoy themselves, and I myself was like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dedication will come to the youngsters in due course of time. As we mature, realisation dawns that we have to do something for society, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basanthi of Bollywood Hema Malini is one of those few former leading ladies of Indian cinema who still have a huge fan following. For industry newcomers, the original Dream Girl remains someone to emulate. However, Hema herself wishes that she were a lead actor in today\u2019s time. The 68-year-old actor, who has been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,2],"tags":[1878,54498,81,4273,54499,1017],"class_list":["post-107248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-gossips","category-top-stories","tag-amithab-bachan","tag-basanthi","tag-bollywood","tag-hema-malini","tag-hema-malini-re-entry","tag-indian-cinema"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hema-malini.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107248","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=107248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}