{"id":108,"date":"2016-04-24T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T08:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.yourchennai.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2016-04-24T08:06:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T08:06:26","slug":"ashish-sharma-aka-ram-is-actually-a-huge-hanuman-bhakt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/ashish-sharma-aka-ram-is-actually-a-huge-hanuman-bhakt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashish Sharma aka Ram is actually a huge Hanuman bhakt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ashish Sharma, who is popularly known for his role as Lord Ram, on STAR PLUS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 show Siya Ke Ram, is a huge Hanuman bhakt in real life. The Jaipur actor who dreamt of playing Ram right from his childhood was always offered the role of Hanuman.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I belong to the city of Jaipur where plays on Ramlila are very common. I was thin and lanky but I was always offered the role of Hanuman. Every time I played Hanuman, I would learn something new about him. I soon became a huge devotee of Lord Hanuman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Ashish Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>Ashish talks about how he and his family celebrate Hanuman Jayanti every year on a large scale, to this he adds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153After I started playing the role of Hanuman, my entire family became a devout follower of Lord Hanuman. Hanuman Jayanti is a huge affair in our family. We celebrate it by having a big puja in the house with all our relatives involved. This year Hanuman Jayanti is on 22nd April but due to our hectic schedule of shooting seven days a week, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t getting an off. So I planned a trip a week ahead for the big puja in my hometown, Jaipur.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Ashish reveals his dream of wanting to play the role of Ram instead of Hanuman, he says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am a big Hanuman bhakt but I always dreamt of playing the role of Lord Ram. I had this belief that someday I would bag the role of Ram. I am now popularly known as Lord Ram and everyone recognises me as the same. I believe Lord Hanuman had planned this for me right from my childhood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Ashish Sharma as Lord Ram on Siya Ke Ram every night at 8pm only on STAR PLUS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashish Sharma, who is popularly known for his role as Lord Ram, on STAR PLUS\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 show Siya Ke Ram, is a huge Hanuman bhakt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75,76,77,73],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-movies-serials-drama-leisure","tag-ashish-sharma","tag-lord-ram","tag-siya-ke-ram","tag-star-plus"],"views":6470,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ashish-Sharma-aka-Ram-Hindi-small.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}