{"id":73990,"date":"2019-11-07T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73990"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:19:49","slug":"official-biography-of-legendary-actor-sanjeev-kumar-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/official-biography-of-legendary-actor-sanjeev-kumar-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Official biography of legendary actor Sanjeev Kumar in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bollywood acting legend Sanjeev Kumar\u2019s official biography is in the works with Reeta Gupta attached to write with the actor\u2019s nephew Uday Jariwala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kumar, whose real name was Haribhai Jariwala, is considered one of the finest actors in Hindi cinema with films such as \u2018Dastak\u2019, \u2018Koshish\u2019, \u2018Aandhi\u2019, \u2018Sholay\u2019, \u2018Mausam\u2019 and \u2018Angoor\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actor excelled in playing older characters but died at a relatively young age of 47 on November 6, 1985 due to his congenital heart condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy uncle\u2019s biography was long overdue. I was really happy when Reeta Gupta approached me with the same.\u201cThe legend of Sanjeev Kumar deserves to be told, as he left us too early. The enduring charm to his \u2018common man\u2019 appeal remains. Producers continued to release films, up to 1993, eight years after his death. Even today, Indians across the globe see him as an iconic performer,\u201d Uday said in a statement on Wednesday, Kumar\u2019s 34th death anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is expected to be ready by Kumar\u2019s 35th death anniversary in November 2020.Gupta said Kumar\u2019s story deserved not only a book but also a movie\/web-series.<\/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>Bollywood acting legend Sanjeev Kumar\u2019s official biography is in the works with Reeta Gupta attached to write with the actor\u2019s nephew Uday Jariwala. Kumar, whose real name was Haribhai Jariwala, is considered one of the finest actors in Hindi cinema with films such as \u2018Dastak\u2019, \u2018Koshish\u2019, \u2018Aandhi\u2019, \u2018Sholay\u2019, \u2018Mausam\u2019 and \u2018Angoor\u2019. The actor excelled in [&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":73991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73990","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\/73990","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=73990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73992,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73990\/revisions\/73992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}