{"id":68582,"date":"2019-08-20T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68582"},"modified":"2019-08-20T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:49:47","slug":"ritesh-batra-to-direct-vidya-balans-web-series-on-indira-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ritesh-batra-to-direct-vidya-balans-web-series-on-indira-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritesh Batra to direct Vidya Balan\u2019s web series on Indira Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ritesh Batra of The Lunch Box and Photograph fame will be directing Vidya Balan\u2019s debut web series on Indira Gandhi. Vidya has bought the rights to Sagarika Ghose\u2019s book, Indira: India\u2019s Most Powerful Prime Minister on which the series will be based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRitesh is directing the series,\u201d a source close to the development said. Vidya, who was seen in the recently released film Mission Mangal, had earlier told PTI in an interview, the project has been under development for a while courtesy its subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am doing a web series and it is my debut, Ronnie Screwvala is producing it. It is taking a long time to put it together as there is so much material. \u201cThe web series requires a lot of work. So it is taking time but let\u2019s see. I hope it doesn\u2019t take longer,\u201d the actor had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vidya will also be playing Math wizard Shakuntala Devi in a biopic. \u201cIt was amazing to know that someone who is known as a human computer is so much fun. She had a crazy side to her.<\/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>Ritesh Batra of The Lunch Box and Photograph fame will be directing Vidya Balan\u2019s debut web series on Indira Gandhi. Vidya has bought the rights to Sagarika Ghose\u2019s book, Indira: India\u2019s Most Powerful Prime Minister on which the series will be based. \u201cRitesh is directing the series,\u201d a source close to the development said. Vidya, [&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":68583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68582","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\/68582","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=68582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68584,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68582\/revisions\/68584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}