{"id":645029,"date":"2026-10-13T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:34:09","slug":"amitabh-bachchan-84-says-hell-never-direct-and-isnt-retiring-either-i-cant-even-dream-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645029\/","title":{"rendered":"Amitabh Bachchan, 84, says he\u2019ll never direct, and isn\u2019t retiring either: \u2018I can\u2019t even dream of it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He does offer ideas on set, he said, but the final call always belongs to the director, whom he considers the person in command. \u201cMost of the time they reject my inputs. And happily, those films have done well. So I feel my suggestions are not worth taking. Otherwise, all my directors have been extremely compliant,\u201d he said and added that he has never been a \u201cdifficult actor\u201d and also believed that the \u201cdirector is the captain of the ship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He does offer ideas on set, he said, but the final call always belongs to the director, whom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-645029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}