{"id":83993,"date":"2025-11-24T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/bollywood-legend-dharmendra-dies-at-89-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:44:23","slug":"bollywood-legend-dharmendra-dies-at-89-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/bollywood-legend-dharmendra-dies-at-89-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood legend Dharmendra dies at 89 | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood star Dharmendra has died in the Indian city of Mumbai at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi <!--more--> 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: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Dharmendra #Bollywood #BBCNews<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}