{"id":1996,"date":"2017-08-13T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2017-08-13T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T14:45:42","slug":"diljit-dosanjh-has-opened-doors-for-turbaned-sikhs-in-bollywood-manjot-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/diljit-dosanjh-has-opened-doors-for-turbaned-sikhs-in-bollywood-manjot-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Diljit Dosanjh Has Opened Doors for Turbaned Sikhs in Bollywood: Manjot Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! famed actor Manjot Singh, excited about his upcoming film Fukrey Returns, says the Hindi film industry is changing its attitude towards actors with a turban and that the acceptance of Diljit Dosanjh is a prime example.<\/p>\n<p>He was 16 when he featured in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! in 2008 and received a Filmfare Critics Award for the Best Actor category for it.<\/p>\n<p>In a chat here, Manjot spoke about how his dream is coming true slowly but surely.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he feels the pressure of having limited roles in the Hindi film industry because he wears a turban, Manjot said: &#8220;No, not really, because I can see how things are changing. For instance, Diljit paaji is opening the door for us with films like Udta Punjab and Phillauri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People loved him everywhere. So I know, even I will get my share of opportunity, and no, I did not think of cutting my hair or removing my turban for a role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having made his debut in 2008 with a Dibakar Banerjee film, Manjot has worked with filmmakers like Vikramaditya Motwane, Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar and Tony D&#8217;Souza for films like &#8220;Udaan&#8221;, &#8220;Student Of The Year&#8221; and &#8220;Azhar&#8221;, apart from &#8220;Fukrey&#8221; that won him appreciation from the audience.<\/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>Mumbai: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! famed actor Manjot Singh, excited about his upcoming film Fukrey Returns, says the Hindi film industry is changing its attitude towards actors with a turban and that the acceptance of Diljit Dosanjh is a prime example. He was 16 when he featured in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! in 2008 and [&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":2,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}