{"id":36611,"date":"2021-02-07T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=36611"},"modified":"2021-02-07T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T17:30:20","slug":"gulmarg-winter-festival-hosts-bollywood-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=36611","title":{"rendered":"Gulmarg winter Festival hosts Bollywood stars\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Gulmarg 07 February: <\/em><\/strong><em>A mega cultural extravaganza marked by presence of Bollywood stars was witnessed among the snow claded mountains of Gulmarg.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; padding:4px0px10px; margin:0px; font-family:\" helveticaneue\",helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; color:rgb(121,121,121); font-size:14px; line-height:1.6em; text-align:left;\"><em> The programme was organised by Indian Army along with the J&amp;K Tourism Department to provide a platform to the local youths to showcase their talents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The two days extravaganza was full of adventure activities &amp; the highlight were Skiing, Snow mobile, ATV race &amp; Snow cycling. Apart from this cultural performances by renowned artists of Kashmir mesmerised  the audience with their spell bound performances. Display of local cuisines &amp; handicrafts made the event more than perfect, according to KNS correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The bollywood stars including Arbaaz Khan along with Vidya Balan supported the efforts of Indian Army &amp; inspired the local talents.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Other notable artists who made this event a mega success  were Altmash Faridi, Aabid Aly, Shafi Sopori, Zubair Khan, Waseem Ahmed &amp; Umer Rockband.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The event was organised after two years &amp; aptly announced the re-opening of Kashmir to the world, officials said.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Indian Army has always maintained a great connect with the local people &amp; this is yet another instance of Army supporting the aspirations of Awaam for a future of hope, prosperity &amp; peace in the valley. The event is likely to provide a fillip to the tourism in the valley &amp; support the Kashmiri people whose livelihood has been impacted adversely due to COVID pandemic,&#8221; they addedm<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The event concluded with a vote of thanks by the Chief Guest Major General Virendra Vats,Baramulla Division, where he congratulated everyone involved in the historic event &amp; assured that Indian Army is committed towards endorsing the progress &amp; prosperity of people of valley &amp; will continue supporting the dreams &amp; aspirations of all Kashmiri in all possible manner.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulmarg 07 February: A mega cultural extravaganza marked by presence of Bollywood stars was witnessed among the snow claded mountains of Gulmarg. The programme was organised by Indian Army along with the J&amp;K Tourism Department to provide a platform to the local youths to showcase their talents. The two days extravaganza was full of adventure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}