{"id":151791,"date":"2025-11-24T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:13:08","slug":"beloved-bollywood-star-dharmendra-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151791\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Bollywood star Dharmendra dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>24 Nov, 2025 06:13 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Bollywood star Dharmendra has died, marking the end of an era in Indian cinema. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">India\u2019s hugely popular Bollywood star Dharmendra, who was equally at ease in romantic comedies and high-octane action blockbusters, has died. He was 89. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe passing of Dharmendra Ji marks the end of an era in Indian cinema,\u201d Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cHe<br \/>\n         was an iconic film personality, a phenomenal actor who brought charm and depth to every role he played.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jfzDFPEunTEYkG\" style=\"display:none\">The actor had not been well recently and was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfzDFPEunTEYkG\" style=\"display:none\">Over a remarkable six-decade career, Dharmendra appeared in more than 250 films, served as a member of Parliament, and was honoured with one of India\u2019s highest civilian awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 24 Nov, 2025 06:13 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26475,432,1975,14645,101245,5527,101243,8299,6179,7126,8449,156,89277,101244,13021,82715,111,139,69,10903,23334,2737],"class_list":["post-151791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-26475","tag-action","tag-at","tag-beloved","tag-blockbusters","tag-bollywood","tag-comedies","tag-dharmendra","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-ease","tag-entertainment","tag-equally","tag-highoctane","tag-hugely","tag-indias","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-popular","tag-romantic","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}