{"id":4470,"date":"2025-12-16T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/bollywood-legend-dharmendra-dies-at-89-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:06:09","slug":"bollywood-legend-dharmendra-dies-at-89-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/bollywood-legend-dharmendra-dies-at-89-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood legend Dharmendra dies at 89 | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5feeh4_xuo?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Bollywood star Dharmendra has died in the Indian city of Mumbai at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the actor, saying his passing &#8220;marks the end of an era in Indian cinema&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dharmendra, who often described himself as &#8220;a simple man&#8221;, commanded extraordinary affection and loyalty from his tens of millions of fans.<\/p>\n<p>Best known as Veeru, the lovable petty criminal in the 1975 blockbuster Sholay, he appeared in more than 300 films, many hits, captivating audiences for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Dharmendra #Bollywood #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5feeh4_xuo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood star Dharmendra has died in the Indian city of Mumbai at the age of 89. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the actor, saying his passing &#8220;marks the end of an era in Indian cinema&#8221;. Dharmendra, who often described himself as &#8220;a simple man&#8221;, commanded extraordinary affection and loyalty from his tens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[356,15,169,1748,565,368,1749,354,1750,496,162],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-india-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news","tag-world","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}