{"id":307642,"date":"2019-01-01T05:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T05:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307642"},"modified":"2019-01-01T05:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T05:33:27","slug":"veteran-bollywood-actor-kader-khan-passes-away-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/veteran-bollywood-actor-kader-khan-passes-away-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Bollywood actor Kader Khan passes away at 81"},"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-307643 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kader-khan-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kader-khan-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/kader-khan.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Veteran Bollywood actor-writer-director Kader Khan passed away after prolonged illness at a hospital in\u00a0Toronto\u00a0in Canada, a family member said on Tuesday. He was 81.<\/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 the sources, Khan took his last breath on December 31 at 6 pm as per Canadian time due to prolonged illness. He slipped into coma in the afternoon.<\/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 the reports, he was suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a degenerative disease that causes loss of balance, difficulty in walking and dementia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kader Khan made his acting debut in 1973 and has featured in over 300 films.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Bollywood actor-writer-director Kader Khan passed away after prolonged illness at a hospital in\u00a0Toronto\u00a0in Canada, a family member said on Tuesday. He was 81. According to the sources, Khan took his last breath on December 31 at 6 pm as per Canadian time due to prolonged illness. He slipped into coma in the afternoon. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[73,10467,2340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307642"}],"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=307642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307644,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307642\/revisions\/307644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}