{"id":302294,"date":"2018-09-06T03:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302294"},"modified":"2018-09-06T03:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T03:53:29","slug":"veteran-actor-dilip-kumar-admitted-to-hospital-due-to-chest-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/veteran-actor-dilip-kumar-admitted-to-hospital-due-to-chest-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Dilip Kumar admitted to hospital due to chest infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302295 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dilip-kumar-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/dilip-kumar-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/dilip-kumar.jpg 380w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/dilip-kumar-275x420.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/>Veteran actor Dilip Kumar was admitted to Mumbai&#8217;s Lilavati Hospital on Wednesday after complaints of uneasiness due to a chest infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to a tweet shared on his official Twitter account, &#8220;Saab has been admitted to Mumbai\u2019s Lilavati Hospital as he was bit uneasy due to a chest infection. He\u2019s recuperating. Requesting your duas and prayers. -FF.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the vice president of Lilavati Hospital, the actor was admitted to the hospital Wednesday afternoon. &#8220;He just came for routine check-up and there was nothing to worry about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dilip Kumar was last seen on the big screen in\u00a0Qila\u00a0in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 1994, Kumar was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2015, the 95-year-old actor was honoured with Padma Vibhushan for his contribution towards Indian cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is best known for his work in films like Devdas, Mughal-E-Azam, Andaz, Shakti, Karma, among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar got married to Saira Banu in 1966.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor Dilip Kumar was admitted to Mumbai&#8217;s Lilavati Hospital on Wednesday after complaints of uneasiness due to a chest infection. According to a tweet shared on his official Twitter account, &#8220;Saab has been admitted to Mumbai\u2019s Lilavati Hospital as he was bit uneasy due to a chest infection. He\u2019s recuperating. Requesting your duas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[4780,1467,71,4781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302296,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302294\/revisions\/302296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}