{"id":1175,"date":"2015-11-29T01:05:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T01:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:00:45","slug":"two-bollywood-films-ready-to-take-on-star-wars-the-force-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Two Bollywood Films Ready To Take On &#8216;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"star\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While most distributors around the world are ducking for cover to avoid  Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the producers of two Bollywood films are taking on J.J. Abrams\u2019 juggernaut head-on worldwide on December 18.<\/p>\n<p>The Walt Disney DIS -0.88% Co. isn\u2019t up for the contest with Dilwale and Bajirao Matani in India or Pakistan, where the Star Wars reboot is launching on December 25.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s biggest film star, Shah Rukh Khan, heads the cast of director Rohit Shetty\u2019s Dilwale, an action-comedy-musical shot in Bulgaria. In its first foray into distribution, Khan\u2019s production company Red Chillies is releasing the film in India, the U.S. and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Bajirao Mastani, producer\/director Sanjay Leela Bhansali\u2019s  historical romantic drama starring  Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Milind Soman and Tanvi Azmi, is being released worldwide by Eros International.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney Co. originally dated Star Wars worldwide on December 18  but then opted to go one week later  in India and Pakistan, presumably to avoid clashing with the Bollywood entries.<br \/>\nSource: Forbes\/ STAR\/AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most distributors around the world are ducking for cover to avoid Star Wars: The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22,12,9,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",960,558,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star-300x174.jpg",300,174,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",640,372,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",640,372,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",960,558,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",960,558,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",960,558,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",720,419,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/star.jpg",480,279,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}