{"id":7607,"date":"2017-02-27T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2019-06-06T21:39:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T01:39:33","slug":"oscars-2017-om-puri-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/oscars-2017-om-puri-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2017: Om Puri Honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Every year the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Academy Awards<\/span> honour the greatest achievements in film that particular year and part of that recognition is through honouring those who have passed away recently. At last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Oscars, the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tribute to those lost included Indian actor <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Om Puri<\/span>. Puri recently passed away in January from cardiac arrest at the age of 66.<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170227_101418_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170227_101418_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_20170227_101418_1-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0039743795063875\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4997725053\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Puri was one of the very few actors who had worked continuously in both Hollywood and Bollywood with films spanning throughout his 25 year career. With the Oscars including him in their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIn Memoriam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 tribute, Puri became the first Indian actor to be featured. Others included in the montage were Carrie Fisher, Prince, Gene Wilder, Mary Taylor Moore, Anton Yelchin, and Patty Duke. Singer Sara Bareilles delivered a special performance of the Joni Mitchell song \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Both Sides Now\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during the montage while an emotional Jennifer Aniston introduced the segment.<\/h4>\n<h4>Puri\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family was particularly touched by the tribute and released a statement thanking the Academy for acknowledging the late actor.<\/h4>\n<h4>Puri\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s film credits include popular flicks <em>East is East, Gandhi, City of Joy,<\/em> and <em>Wolf<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Academy Awards honour the greatest achievements in film that particular year and part of that recognition is through honouring those who have passed away recently. At last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Oscars, the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tribute to those lost included Indian actor Om Puri. Puri recently passed away in January from cardiac arrest at the age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[148,756,146],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-academy-awards","tag-om-puri","tag-oscars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7945,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions\/7945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}