{"id":60700,"date":"2019-05-06T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=60700"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:26:45","slug":"after-citizenship-netizens-now-question-akshay-kumars-eligibility-for-national-film-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/after-citizenship-netizens-now-question-akshay-kumars-eligibility-for-national-film-award\/","title":{"rendered":"After citizenship, netizens now question Akshay Kumar\u2019s eligibility for National Film Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Akshay  Kumar, who said he has Canadian citizenship, was questioned on social  media about winning the National Award. However, filmmaker Rahul  Dholakia supported the actor and said that &#8220;foreign nationals can get  National Awards&#8221; On Saturday, several social media users including  National award-winning film editor and writer Apurva Asrani questioned  Akshay on being a National Award-winner.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asrani tweeted: &#8220;Are \nCanadian citizens eligible for India&#8217;s National Awards? The year Akshay \nKumar won &#8216;Best Actor&#8217;, we were expecting Manoj Bajpayee to win for \n&#8216;Aligarh&#8217;. If the jury\/ministry has made an error in Kumar&#8217;s case, will \nthere be a revote.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However following the rulebook of the \nDirectorate of Film Festivals, the organisation that presents the \nNational Film Awards, under the section of eligibility of a candidate it\n reads: &#8220;Film professionals and technicians of foreign origin can also \nbe considered for awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akshay was honoured with the &#8220;Best \nActor Award&#8221; for \u2018Rustom\u2019 in 2016.Earlier this week, the \u2018Khiladi\u2019 star \nfaced flak on social media after he interviewed Prime Minister Narendra \nModi. \n\n<\/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>Akshay Kumar, who said he has Canadian citizenship, was questioned on social media about winning the National Award. However, filmmaker Rahul Dholakia supported the actor and said that &#8220;foreign nationals can get National Awards&#8221; On Saturday, several social media users including National award-winning film editor and writer Apurva Asrani questioned Akshay on being a National [&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":60701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60700","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\/60700","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=60700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60702,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60700\/revisions\/60702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}