{"id":312636,"date":"2019-05-27T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T09:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312636"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:39:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T09:39:29","slug":"action-choreographer-veeru-devgan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/action-choreographer-veeru-devgan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Action choreographer Veeru Devgan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312637 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/veeru-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/veeru-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/veeru.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Veeru Devgan, known as Bollywood\u2019s, most celebrated action and stunt director on Monday passed away in Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He choreographed fight and action scenes in more than 80 films including Phool Aur Kaante (1991), Mr India (1987), Himmatwala (1983) among various others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The father of Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn had also directed a film Hindustan Ki Kasam starring Ajay Devgun and Amitabh Bachchan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh said in a tweet, \u201cVeeru Devgan passed away this morning [27 May 2019]&#8230; Father of Ajay Devgn&#8230; Veeru ji was an accomplished action director&#8230; Also directed #HindustanKiKasam, starring son Ajay with Amitabh Bachchan&#8230; Funeral will be held today at 6 pm&#8230; Heartfelt condolences to Devgn family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veeru Devgan, known as Bollywood\u2019s, most celebrated action and stunt director on Monday passed away in Mumbai. He choreographed fight and action scenes in more than 80 films including Phool Aur Kaante (1991), Mr India (1987), Himmatwala (1983) among various others.\u00a0 The father of Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn had also directed a film Hindustan Ki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,36,2014,2026],"tags":[11411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312636"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312639,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312636\/revisions\/312639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}