{"id":658,"date":"2009-12-11T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2009-12-12T00:00:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T08:00:55","slug":"day-303-bollywood-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Day 303: bollywood dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like Bollywood films.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m fairly certain of that.&#160; Of the snippets I\u2019ve seen in random Indian restaurants and on the Internet, I adore the fact that an entire nation has accepted the fact that every movie will contain songs that further the plot, combined with intricate and exciting dance numbers.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago or so, I made Katie (for the second time) and some college friends watch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om_Shanti_Om\" target=\"_blank\">Om Shanti Om<\/a> with me.&#160; It was the second time I had watched it, and I enjoyed that 3+ hour Bollywood epic even more than I had the first time.<\/p>\n<p>So, here\u2019s my dilemma.&#160; I\u2019d love to watch more Bollywood films.&#160; But where do I start?<\/p>\n<p>I have no real guide in this genre of film.&#160; Should I just go with the highest rated films in the Bollywood subgenre on Netflix?&#160; I figure I must have some friends who actually know more about this out on the Internet.&#160; Care to help an amateur Bollywood fan out?<\/p>\n<p>What are considered Bollywood classics?&#160; What are hidden Bollywood gems?&#160; Name a movie that I can get easily, and I\u2019ll watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Bollywood films. I\u2019m fairly certain of that.&#160; Of the snippets I\u2019ve seen in random Indian restaurants and on the Internet, I adore the fact that an entire nation has accepted the fact that every movie will contain songs that further the plot, combined with intricate and exciting dance numbers. A year ago or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[295,34],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-bollywood","tag-movie","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}