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life
Bedi was one of three children born
into a family that had devoted itself to India's fight for independence from
British colonial rule. His father, Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi, a Punjabi
Sikh,
was an author and philosopher. His mother, Freda Bedi
was a British woman born in Derby, England, who became famous as the first
Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism.[citation needed] Kabir Bedi did his schooling at Sherwood College, Nainital, and graduation from St.
Stephen's College, Delhi.
Personal
life
Bedi married four times and had
three children, Pooja, Siddharth (deceased) and Adam. He was married to Protima Bedi,
an Odissi
dancer. Their daughter Pooja Bedi is a magazine/newspaper columnist.[dated info] Their
son, Siddharth, who went to Carnegie Mellon University in the USA, had a long
history of schizophrenia and committed suicide in 1997 at the age of 26.[3]
As his marriage with Protima began
to break down he famously started a relationship with Parveen Babi.
They never married. He later married British-born fashion designer Susan
Humphreys. Their son, Adam Bedi is an international model[4]
who made his Hindi Film debut with the thriller, Hello? Kaun Hai!.[5]
This marriage ended in divorce.
In the late 1990s, Bedi married TV
and radio presenter Nikki Bedi. They had no children and divorced in 2005. After that,
Kabir Bedi has been in a relationship with British born Parveen Dusanj.[6][7][8][9]
Kabir tied knot with his long time
partner Parveen Dusanj, 41, a day before his 70th birthday (15th January 2016).[10]
Kabir Bedi is a firm supporter of the freedom struggle in Burma, and has become an official
ambassador of the Burma Campaign UK.[11]
He is also the Brand Ambassador for Rotary International South Asia for their
Teach Programme and the Total Literacy Mission in India and South Asia.[12]
Career
Kabir Bedi began his career in Indian theatre
and then moved on to Hindi films. Bedi remains one of the first international actors from
India to have originated from Hindi Films, worked in Hollywood, and become a
big star in Europe.
Stage
acting
As a stage actor, Kabir has performed
Shakespeare's
Othello
as well as portrayed a historical Indian king, Tughlaq; and a
self-destructive alcoholic in The Vultures. In London he also starred in
The Far Pavilions, the West End musical adaptation of M. M. Kaye's
novel, at the Shaftesbury Theatre. In 2011 Kabir played Emperor Shah Jahan, in 'Taj' a play
written by John
Murrell, a celebrated Canadian playwright
for the Luminato Festival in Toronto. In 2013, this play was recommissioned and went
on an 8-week multi city tour of Canada.[13]
Film
career
In the James Bond
film Octopussy,
he played the villain's aide Gobinda
who battled Roger Moore from start to finish.
Kabir has acted in over 60 Indian
films. In the historical epic Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story, Kabir starred as the Emperor Shah Jahan. Other starring Hindi Films roles include Raj Khosla's
Kacche Dhaage, Rakesh Roshan's
Khoon Bhari Maang and Farah Khan's
Main Hoon Na.
Kabir Bedi shot a movie with Hrithik Roshan
(Kites), Govinda
(Showman), and Akshay Kumar
(Blue).[14]
He is also starred in Deepa Mehta's film, Kamagata Maru
with Amitabh Bachchan and John Abraham. He did a pivotal role in a Tamil film titled 'Aravaan',
directed by Vasanthabalan, who is critically acclaimed for his earlier films Angaadi Theru and Veyil.
Kabir played pivotal roles in Columbia Pictures' The
Beast of War, a film on the Russian
war in Afghanistan, directed by Kevin
Reynolds, as well as the acclaimed Italian
film Andata Ritorno, by Marco Ponti,
winner of the prestigious David di Donatello Award.
Television
career
Kabir's has had extensive roles on
American television – primetime and daytime, series and miniseries – including
Hallmark's African epic Forbidden Territory, and Ken Follett's
On Wings of Eagles and also Red Eagle. He played Friar Sands in The Lost Empire,
for NBC.
Kabir also played roles on Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote, Magnum, P.I., Hunter, Knight Rider
and Highlander:
The Series amongst others.
In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga
of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times; an
Italian-German-French TV series.. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time
Italian television series, Un Medico in Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest
broadcaster.
For over a year, Kabir starred in The
Bold and the Beautiful, the
second most-watched television show in the world, seen by over a billion people
in 149 countries.
He had his own cinematic talk show
on Indian TV, "Director's Cut", a 13-part special series interviewing
the country's leading directors. His success on television continued in 2013
with award winning prime-time shows “Guns and Glory: The Indian Soldier”
& “Vandemataram”, for India’s news channels - Headlines Today
& Aaj Tak.[15]
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