{"id":115280,"date":"2026-06-10T05:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/bharathiraja-meet-the-filmmaker-who-changed-tamil-cinema\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:35:57","slug":"bharathiraja-meet-the-filmmaker-who-changed-tamil-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/bharathiraja-meet-the-filmmaker-who-changed-tamil-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharathiraja: Meet the filmmaker who changed Tamil cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned filmmaker Bharathiraja, celebrated for his realistic portrayal of rural life and human emotions, has passed away at 84. His groundbreaking film &#8217;16 Vayathinile&#8217; launched stars and redefined Tamil cinema. Bharathiraja&#8217;s impactful career, spanning nearly five decades, earned him national awards and a Padma Shri, leaving an indelible legacy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned filmmaker Bharathiraja, celebrated for his realistic portrayal of rural life and human emotions, has passed away at 84. His groundbreaking film &#8217;16 Vayathinile&#8217; launched stars and redefined Tamil cinema. Bharathiraja&#8217;s impactful career, spanning nearly five decades, earned him national awards and a Padma Shri, leaving an indelible legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}