{"id":5775,"date":"2009-05-16T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5775"},"modified":"2009-05-16T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T16:33:51","slug":"terminator_or_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/terminator_or_r\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminator or Resistance fighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/video\/imdb\/vi967311897\/\" target=_blank><img class=picture height=296 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/termsalvposter_1.jpg\" width=200 border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>I find more personal joy in seeing desi characters in science fiction movies than in any other genre of film.  I get a completely irrational &#8220;see, we made it into the future&#8221; type of feeling.  I also like the fact that in the future one&#8217;s race is usually treated as an incidental rather than defining feature.  <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com\/\" target=_blank>Terminator Salvation<\/a> opens next week and features at least one desi character named Rahul (played by actor <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anjul_Nigam\" target=_blank>Anjul Nigam<\/a>).  No pictures or background on his character are available yet (he explains on <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/anjulNigam\" target=_blank>his Twitter account<\/a> that he was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement), but I suppose it is too much to wish that he is one of the cyborg terminators.  If anyone has the scoop on his character &#8220;Rahul&#8221; let&#8217;s hear it.<\/p>\n\n<p><center><img class=picture height=199 hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/anig_1.jpg\" width=130 border=0><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>If Nigam looks familiar it might be because you have seen him recently on TV&#8217;s &#8220;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/lietome\/\" target=_blank>Lie to Me<\/a>&#8221; or (*barf*) &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find more personal joy in seeing desi characters in science fiction movies than in any other genre of film. I get a completely irrational &#8220;see, we made it into the future&#8221; type of feeling. I also like the fact &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/terminator_or_r\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,21,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}