{"id":14305,"date":"2016-07-08T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2016-07-08T01:39:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T05:39:20","slug":"the-king-khans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-king-khans\/","title":{"rendered":"The King Khans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/070816_0535_TheKingKhan1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist wrote about India&#8217;s film industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India&#8217;s top three male actors all share the last name Khan \u2013 but are unrelated.<\/li>\n<li>Each has staked out his own date on India&#8217;s movie release calendar. The brawny fighter, Salman Khan (right), gets Eid (sure enough his latest film, Sultan, premiered two days ago).<\/li>\n<li>The intellectual one, Aamir Khan (center), gets Christmas.<\/li>\n<li>And the biggest of them all, the romancer Shahrukh Khan (left), gets Diwali.<\/li>\n<li>Their dominance of these dates continue because these are the festivals when Indians are most likely to splurge on a movie. And getting the most bankable stars helps ensure success.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian film industry can also be superstitions. Stars that are thought to be lucky frequently make cameo appearances.<\/li>\n<li>Some particularly superstitious heroes go as far as changing the way their name is spelled &#8211; Ajay Devgan may spell his name in the credits as Ajay Devgn because the alternate spelling is thought to bring better luck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/asia\/21701661-indias-biggest-film-stars-have-locked-up-best-release-dates-yes-he-khan\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/asia\/21701661-indias-biggest-film-stars-have-locked-up-best-release-dates-yes-he-khan\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist wrote about India&#8217;s film industry: India&#8217;s top three male actors all share the last name Khan \u2013 but are unrelated. Each has staked out his own date on India&#8217;s movie release calendar. The brawny fighter, Salman Khan (right), gets Eid (sure enough his latest film, Sultan, premiered two days ago). The intellectual one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/070816_0535_TheKingKhan1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14307,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions\/14307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}