{"id":333,"date":"2004-09-02T18:28:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=333"},"modified":"2006-02-12T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:19:29","slug":"hari_puttar_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/hari_puttar_and\/","title":{"rendered":"Hari Puttar and the Order of the Phoenix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mira Nair to direct the new Harry Potter movie? According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpana.com\/news.18277.html\">Nair herself<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m getting offers to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I read it over the weekend. I&#8217;m still deciding&#8230; I&#8217;m not letting all this go to my head. I&#8217;m grounded. I practise detachment, it helps me keep my balance. I&#8217;m a Dilliwalli [someone from Delhi], only an asana [a position in Yoga] gets me on my head! My son Zoharan&#8217;s excited. I&#8217;ve seen all the Harry Potter movies with him.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;d be quite interested to see what she could do with the material. I thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0001060\/\">Chris Columbus<\/a> did an awful job, both in terms of deadening the joy in the material, but also in terms of whitewashing it all. <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0190859\/\">Cuaron<\/a>, on the other hand, did even better than I had expected (although given how well he directed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0113670\/\">A Little Princess<\/a>&#8220;, maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised). He also managed to showcase the non-white characters who were there all along, and who play a larger role in the story as the series goes on. No word yet on whether <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm1600784\/\">Sitara Shah<\/a> will come back as Parvati Patil (heck, they haven&#8217;t even re-signed Daniel Radcliffe yet).<\/p>\n\n<p>For more on Nair, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000323.html\">Sajit&#8217;s earlier post <\/a>on the topic, where he mentioned this rumor earlier.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mira Nair to direct the new Harry Potter movie? According to Nair herself: &#8220;I&#8217;m getting offers to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I read it over the weekend. I&#8217;m still deciding&#8230; I&#8217;m not letting all this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/hari_puttar_and\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}