{"id":18833,"date":"2018-01-16T12:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=18833"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:29:49","slug":"archer-deepika-kumari-to-star-in-bisahi-a-movie-against-witch-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/archer-deepika-kumari-to-star-in-bisahi-a-movie-against-witch-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Archer Deepika Kumari to star in Bisahi, a movie against witch hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deepika Kumari, a gold medallist in the Commonwealth Games , is set to dazzle the silver screen. The ace archer, who is training for the 2018 Asian Games and CWG, will make her film debut soon, with a lead role in a movie on witch hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Tentatively titled \u2018Bisahi\u2019, the movie is aimed at raising awareness about the social evil of witch hunting, which is still practised in some parts of the country including Deepika\u2019s home state, Jharkhand, where the film is set. Shooting will commence in mid- March.<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna awardee Deepika, a former world No , had initially refused the offer to act in the film, but she changed her decision after reading the script which she found moving. The entire film will be shot in Jharkhand with all the important cast members belonging to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Bisahi\u2019s producer, Suresh Seth Bhagat said that the film would document society\u2019s prejudices against those women who stand out but are tormented on the name of witch hunting. By raising this, he wants to take the issue onto the international stage.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepika Kumari, a gold medallist in the Commonwealth Games , is set to dazzle the silver screen. The ace archer, who is training for the 2018 Asian Games and CWG, will make her film debut soon, with a lead role in a movie on witch hunting. Tentatively titled \u2018Bisahi\u2019, the movie is aimed at raising [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18835,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions\/18835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}