{"id":5562,"date":"2005-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/15\/2005-09-15-film-on-lord-ganesha-opens-in-delhi\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"2005-09-15-film-on-lord-ganesha-opens-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/09\/15\/2005-09-15-film-on-lord-ganesha-opens-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Film on Lord Ganesha Opens in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">Press Release<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">DELHI, INDIA, September 17, 2005: Ganesh &#8211; The Elephant God (video; 53 min; English) by the Bedi Brothers will be shown at the India International Centre, phone 2461 9431. The press release reads, &#8220;Indian elephants, small eared cousins of the African, play an integral part in the art, sport, literature and ceremonies of this country. Ganesh &#8211; The Elephant God documents some of the ways in which traditional life revolves around the 2,000 captive elephants. The films depict how, whether pushing trains, carrying tourists or as temple elephants worshipped as incarnations of the God, Ganesh, they are highly sought after. The climax of the film is the annual Pooram festival at Trichur where magnificently attired elephants and colorful musicians from rival temples try to outdo each other in sound and splendor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release DELHI, INDIA, September 17, 2005: Ganesh &#8211; The Elephant God (video; 53 min; English) by the Bedi Brothers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}