{"id":315342,"date":"2019-09-30T04:29:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315342"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:29:30","slug":"veteran-actor-viju-khote-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/veteran-actor-viju-khote-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Viju Khote passes away"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-315343 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/viju-khote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/viju-khote.jpg 490w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/viju-khote-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/viju-khote-427x420.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Veteran actor Viju Khote passed away on Monday at the age of 77. He was best known for his role as Kalia in the blockbuster film &#8216;Sholay&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reason behind his death is unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Sholay, he was remembered for his roles in films like Andaz Apna Apna, Hadh Kar Di Aapne, Golmaal 3 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;\">The veteran actor was the son of acclaimed stage artists Nandu Khote and Durga Khote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Viju Khote had also made a remarkable contribution to the Marathi film industry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor Viju Khote passed away on Monday at the age of 77. He was best known for his role as Kalia in the blockbuster film &#8216;Sholay&#8217;. The reason behind his death is unknown. Besides Sholay, he was remembered for his roles in films like Andaz Apna Apna, Hadh Kar Di Aapne, Golmaal 3 among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[11833],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315342"}],"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=315342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315345,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315342\/revisions\/315345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}