{"id":3828,"date":"2020-04-29T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:06:00","slug":"actor-loses-battle-to-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"Actor Loses Battle To Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Am Indian actor, Irrfan Khan, who brought a modern sensibility to recent hit films and hard roles in Hollywood movies such as \u201cLife of Pi\u201d and \u201cThe Namesake\u201d, is dead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Khan died on Wednesday at age 54.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He died after a prolonged battle with cancer as confirmed by a spokesman who said the deceased actor was surrounded by family at the time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him,\u201cHe fought the many battles that came with it,\u201d the spokesman said in a statement, referring to the diagnosis of Khan\u2019s rare cancer in 2018.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It would be recalled that Khan was among the first Indian actors to make a consistent mark in Western cinema, following in the footsteps of crossover pioneers such as Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth and Om Puri.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan in the western desert state of Rajasthan, in a family with no ties to cinema, the actor recalled in interviews that as children, he and his siblings were not allowed to watch movies, adding that the only exception was when a visiting uncle took them to the theatre.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He was described as \u201cAn incredible talent,\u201d by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, among the tributes on Twitter that followed Khan\u2019s death.<\/div>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cA gracious colleague. A prolific contributor to the world of cinema .. left us too soon creating a huge vacuum,\u201d he tweeted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am Indian actor, Irrfan Khan, who brought a modern sensibility to recent hit films and hard roles in Hollywood movies such as \u201cLife of Pi\u201d and \u201cThe Namesake\u201d, is dead. Khan died on Wednesday at age 54. He died after a prolonged battle with cancer as confirmed by a spokesman who said the deceased actor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[212,2541,2542,2540],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-bollywood","tag-cancer","tag-irrfan-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}