{"id":184757,"date":"2022-02-20T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=184757"},"modified":"2022-02-20T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T20:10:10","slug":"imtiaz-ali-evinces-interest-in-arunachal-locales-for-film-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/imtiaz-ali-evinces-interest-in-arunachal-locales-for-film-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Imtiaz Ali evinces interest in Arunachal locales for film shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 19 Feb:<\/strong> Ace Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali on Saturday expressed his interest in shooting a film in Arunachal Pradesh, saying that the diversity of the frontier state should be showcased on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ali, who has churned out blockbuster hits such as &#8216;Jab We Met&#8217;, was in the state to attend an interactive session with filmmakers, organized as part of the celebrations to mark 50 years of Arunachal&#8217;s conception and existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The director, who is a Hindu College senior of Chief Minister Pema Khandu, said he had been to Tawang on an earlier occasion and his present visit to Itanagar made him realize that &#8220;the state&#8217;s diversity should be highlighted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day, legendary Bollywood director Rahul Rawail&#8217;s book Raj Kapoor: Master of Work was also released at the state assembly&#8217;s Dorjee Khandu Hall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rawail, director of &#8216;Betaab&#8217;, &#8216;Love Story&#8217;, and &#8216;Anjaam&#8217;, was a long-time assistant of Raj Kapoor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khandu released the book at the event. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 19 Feb: Ace Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali on Saturday expressed his interest in shooting a film in Arunachal Pradesh, saying that the diversity of the frontier state should be showcased on the big screen. Ali, who has churned out blockbuster hits such as &#8216;Jab We Met&#8217;, was in the state to attend an interactive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}