{"id":2561,"date":"2019-01-31T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:03:30","slug":"deepika-padukone-replaces-kiran-rao-as-the-new-chairperson-of-mami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"Deepika Padukone replaces Kiran Rao as the new chairperson of MAMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mumbai, <\/strong>Actress Deepika Padukone has replaced producer Kiran Rao as the chairperson of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), which organises the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kiran Rao had decided to step down (as the chairperson of MAMI) because she wanted to focus on making a movie. We were all thinking through names and everybody felt that Deepika Padukone was the right person. She is a wonderful artiste. Now, she is also a producer,&#8221; Anupama Chopra, Festival Director, MAMI Mumbai Film Festival told.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has been part of MAMI. She has been on the board for a few years and has been extremely supportive. So, we all requested her to take the position and she said &#8216;yes&#8217;,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Deepika was selected by the board members of MAMI, a non-profit organisation which was founded in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were Siddharth Roy Kapur, Rohan Sippy, Zoya Akhtar, Kiran Rao, Vikramaditya Motwane and many more,&#8221; shared Chopra.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Padmaavat&#8221; star will play the role of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal in Meghna Gulzar&#8217;s upcoming film &#8220;Chhapaak&#8221;, which will mark her debut as producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai, Actress Deepika Padukone has replaced producer Kiran Rao as the chairperson of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), which organises the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star. &#8220;Kiran Rao had decided to step down (as the chairperson of MAMI) because she wanted to focus on making a movie. We were all thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}