{"id":628243,"date":"2026-10-12T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628243\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:38:08","slug":"veteran-marathi-actress-madhu-kambikar-dies-at-73-after-long-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628243\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Marathi actress Madhu Kambikar dies at 73 after long illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kambikar was born on July 28, 1953, in Malegaon Khurd, a village in Beed district. Her training came on the road, performing with a travelling tamasha troupe, long before cameras became part of her life. That grounding in Lavani, Maharashtra\u2019s energetic folk dance form, shaped everything she did later. She went on to build a career that crossed folk theatre, commercial stage productions, television serials and cinema, and she stayed active in the arts for more than four decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kambikar was born on July 28, 1953, in Malegaon Khurd, a village in Beed district. Her training came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-628243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628243","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=628243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}