{"id":2237,"date":"2005-09-18T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2237"},"modified":"2005-11-29T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:06:08","slug":"indira_varma_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/indira_varma_la\/","title":{"rendered":"Indira Varma Lands in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though many&nbsp;recent roles in Hollywood that are&nbsp;accessible to Desi&nbsp;actors&nbsp;are generally geared more towards terror or medicine, there are some actors of South Asian origin landing non-traditional and non-South Asian characters.&nbsp; British Asian actress Indira Varma, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116743\/\">Kama Sutra<\/a> and Bride and Prejudice fame&nbsp;is one of these actors as highlighted by the very prominent character she portrays in the new HBO series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/rome\/\">Rome<\/a>.&nbsp; Varma, who played <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/lost\/bios\/naveen_andrews.html\">Naveen Andrew&#8217;s<\/a> sister Kiran in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miramax.com\/bride\/\">Bride and Prejudice<\/a>, takes on the role of Niobe, <\/p>\n\n<p><center><img style=\"width: 475px; height: 270px\" height=329 alt=\"\" hspace=1 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/niobe.jpg\" width=755 align=baseline border=1><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;the wife that Vorenus has not seen for nearly eight years. A peasant princess from a large and influential Roman clan. Proud, beautiful, selfishly devoted to the interests of herself and her family.&#8221; If you don&#8217;t get HBO, click on the video button <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/rome\/?ntrack_para1=feat_main_text\">here <\/a>to see a preview of Rome (again, featuring Varma)&nbsp;&nbsp; If you do get HBO, the show airs Sunday evenings, from 9-10 in the evening.&nbsp; More on Varma available over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0890055\/\">IMDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though many&nbsp;recent roles in Hollywood that are&nbsp;accessible to Desi&nbsp;actors&nbsp;are generally geared more towards terror or medicine, there are some actors of South Asian origin landing non-traditional and non-South Asian characters.&nbsp; British Asian actress Indira Varma, of Kama Sutra and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/indira_varma_la\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}