{"id":113392,"date":"2017-11-26T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=113392"},"modified":"2017-11-26T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T09:48:11","slug":"bollywood-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bollywood-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid raging protests against Sanjay Leela Bhansali&#8217;s upcoming film Padmavati, the Indian Films and TV Directors&#8217; Association (IFTDA), along with 20 other bodies of the film and television industry, are planning a 15-minute blackout in support of the film and &#8220;to protect the right to freedom of expression of creative individuals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-113396 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/collage_647_100917023433-1.jpg\" alt=\"                      Bollywood blackout\" width=\"507\" height=\"317\" \/>Ashoke Pandit of IFTDA\u00a0 &#8220;We will keep showing our support for Padmavati and SLB, because it is the basic right of a creative person to tell a story in his own way.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that Bhansali is a responsible filmmaker, and that making a film on history is not something easy, but a huge responsibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-113397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ashok-Pandit-IFTDA-001.jpg\" alt=\"  Bollywood blackout\" width=\"517\" height=\"304\" \/>To express our solidarity (with the film), we are gathering on Sunday for a 15-minute blackout where all shooting units in Mumbai will put off lights and no shootings will take place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We as film industry feel hurt every time such groups target our films and try to control our freedom of expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid raging protests against Sanjay Leela Bhansali&#8217;s upcoming film Padmavati, the Indian Films and TV Directors&#8217; Association (IFTDA), along with 20 other bodies of the film and television industry, are planning a 15-minute blackout in support of the film and &#8220;to protect the right to freedom of expression of creative individuals&#8221;. Ashoke Pandit of IFTDA\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,2],"tags":[58227,58228,58224,58225,11208,12445,39785,4707,58226],"class_list":["post-113392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-gossips","category-top-stories","tag-amid-raging","tag-ashoke-pandit","tag-bollywood-blackout","tag-indian-films","tag-industry","tag-sanjay-leela-bhansali","tag-slb","tag-television","tag-tv-directors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/e1-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113392","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=113392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}