{"id":171,"date":"2003-01-07T20:53:47","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/balham_to_bolly\/"},"modified":"2003-01-07T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2003-01-07T20:53:47","slug":"balham_to_bolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/balham_to_bolly\/","title":{"rendered":"Balham to Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that the only reason I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0340819898\">this<\/a> book was because I saw it for just \ufffd2.99 last Thursday when I was shopping in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesco.com\/books\">Tesco<\/a> (incidentally, this seems to have been an instore only deal). Well the subject matter interested me &#8211; an Englishman making a Bollywood epic, and it was serialised on Radio 4 earlier this year.<br \/>\nSo for a small investment I bought a copy, and I haven&#8217;t regretted it at. It&#8217;s written in a very easy style, and details in a cricket tour diary style, the film-making process of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0282674\">Lagaan<\/a>, a massive Indian movie about a village cricket side who are novices at the game taking on the might of the British army team in the 19th century.<br \/>\nI guess that it&#8217;s clear that Chris England has read plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/billbryson\/home.html\">Bill Bryson<\/a> books and the like, but it means you can race through the book, while learning plenty about the culture.<br \/>\nI also really want to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagaan.com\/\">film<\/a> &#8211; all three and three quarter hours of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that the only reason I bought this book was because I saw it for just \ufffd2.99 last Thursday when I was shopping in Tesco (incidentally, this seems to have been an instore only deal). Well the subject matter interested me &#8211; an Englishman making a Bollywood epic, and it was serialised on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}