{"id":4244,"date":"2008-11-10T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2008-11-10T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:54:01","slug":"loins-of-punjab-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/11\/10\/loins-of-punjab-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Loins of Punjab Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_10_08\/2008_11_10_azmi.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_11_10_08\/2008_11_10_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/im.rediff.com\/movies\/2007\/sep\/21loins2.jpg\" alt=\"shabana azmi\" \/>Bollywood meets American Idol in a new independent film about the South Asian immigrant community in New Jersey. Loins of Punjab Presents, by first-time writer director Manish Acharya, stars veteran Indian actress and political activist Shabana Azmi alongside a line-up of upcoming young actors. According to Acharya, the film covers &#8220;issues of belonging, of defining home, and of self-image. The plot revolves around a Bollywood style singing contest, sponsored by a pork industrialist millionaire, over a weekend at a hotel in New Jersey, complete with aspiring singers, a gay bhangra rapper, and a Jewish American lover of Indian culture. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Shabana Azmi, veteran bollywood actress and political activist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loinsofpunjab.com\">www.loinsofpunjab.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Loins of Punjab opened Friday, November 7 in Greater Los Angeles &#038; San Diego at:<\/p>\n<p>* Downtown LA, ImaginAsian Center<br \/>\n* Los Angeles, Regent Showcase Theater<br \/>\n* Fallbrook, Laemmle Fallbrook<br \/>\n* Irvine, Regal Edwards Westpark 8<br \/>\n* Lakewood, Naz 8 Cinema<br \/>\n* San Diego, Gaslamp Pacific Theatre <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Bollywood meets American Idol in a new independent film about the South Asian immigrant community in New Jersey. Loins of Punjab Presents, by first-time writer director Manish Acharya, stars veteran Indian actress and political activist Shabana Azmi alongside a line-up of upcoming young actors. According to Acharya, the film covers &#8220;issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}