{"id":62329,"date":"2019-05-28T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62329"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:56:51","slug":"ajay-devgns-father-and-action-director-veeru-devgan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ajay-devgns-father-and-action-director-veeru-devgan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Devgn\u2019s father and action director Veeru Devgan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Veeru Devgan, the popular action director behind films such as \u201cRoti Kapda Aur Makaan\u201d and \u201cMr Natwarlal\u201d and the father of actor Ajay Devgn, passed away here on Monday morning. He was 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of death is immediately not known but family sources said Veeru had not been keeping well for some time.<br>\nVeeru, who hailed from Amritsar, ran away from his home to try his luck in films. He initially wanted to become an actor but became a stuntman and later an action choreographer, the veteran stunt director had recalled in several interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, however, fulfilled his dream of breaking it big in Bollywood through son Ajay, considered one of the most successful and versatile actors of his generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veeru worked in more than 80 Bollywood films and did stunt work for major heroes such as Dilip Kumar, Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Rajesh Khanna and Jeetendra among others.<\/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>Veeru Devgan, the popular action director behind films such as \u201cRoti Kapda Aur Makaan\u201d and \u201cMr Natwarlal\u201d and the father of actor Ajay Devgn, passed away here on Monday morning. He was 77. The cause of death is immediately not known but family sources said Veeru had not been keeping well for some time. Veeru, [&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":62330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62329","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\/62329","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=62329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62331,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62329\/revisions\/62331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}