{
  "id": 374846,
  "title": "K.S. Chithra says the other artists were cleared a month before Mohanlal's visa stalled",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/k-s-chithra-says-the-other-artists-were-cleared-a-month-before",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-09T09:55:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/south-indian/ks-chithra-says-the-other-artists-were-cleared-a-month-before-mohanlals-visa-stalled-1.500635296"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dubai: Everyone was in Sydney. The venue was ready, the band had arrived, K.S. Chithra was there, Manoj K. Jayan was there, Aju Varghese was there. Every visa in the group had been approved roughly a month earlier. Every visa but one. Mohanlal spent Saturday in a hotel in Singapore, waiting for an approval that never came, while a convention centre on the other side of the Coral Sea filled with…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}