{"id":33819,"date":"2021-07-07T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/jul\/07\/dilip-kumar-bollywood-legend-and-tragedy-king-of-indian-cinema-dies-aged-98"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:50:33","slug":"dilip-kumar-bollywood-legend-and-tragedy-king-of-indian-cinema-dies-aged-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33819","title":{"rendered":"Dilip Kumar, Bollywood legend and \u2018tragedy king\u2019 of Indian cinema, dies aged 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The star was a defining figure in post-independence Indian cinema and was one of the country\u2019s first method actors<\/p>\n<p>Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar, who was a defining figure in post-independence Indian cinema, has died aged 98.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar had been taken to hospital in Mumbai last week suffering breathlessness, but died early Wednesday morning. \u201cHe passed away due to prolonged illness at 7.30am,\u201d Dr Jalil Parkar of Mumbai\u2019s Hinduja hospital said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/jul\/07\/dilip-kumar-bollywood-legend-and-tragedy-king-of-indian-cinema-dies-aged-98\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The star was a defining figure in post-independence Indian cinema and was one of the country\u2019s first method actorsBollywood legend Dilip Kumar, who was a defining figure in post-independence Indian cinema, has died aged 98.Kumar had been taken to hospi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,69,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33819\/revisions\/33836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}