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BEDI Sandokan INDIA'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR OFFICIAL
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SINCE EARLY FEBRUARY 1999 |
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1965 |
| late 1960s |
Kabir Bedi begins
his TV career in Delhi at national DD-TV as co-presenter of Mirror
of India/Mirror of the World, the first youth programme ever
on Indian TV.
He has a stint as a disc jockey playing channel music for the Oberoi Hotel. |
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1967 |
| 1967 |
At 22,
Kabir Bedi graduates: BA (Hons) in History at St.Stephen's College
of
Delhi University (St.Stephen's College was founded in 1881). |
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1968 |
| early 1968 |
Kabir Bedi moves to
Bombay, centre of the Indian movie industry.
He works in advertising and is soon well-known in India as a model in Will's
cigarettes commercials which are shown frequently at cinema screenings to
large audiences.
He is promoted to film and radio chief at Lintas. |
| May/June
1968 |
Kabir Bedi starts
working for S.H.Bensons (currently
O&M)
in the same profession, as a film and radio chief. |
| September
1968 |
During office hours,
Kabir Bedi meets by coincidence for the very first time the Indian
dancer and model Protima (née Gupta, born October 12,
1949, Delhi - died August 18, 1998, Malpa) in the office of Suresh
Mullick, then head of Bensons.
Protima works for Bensons as a model.
Protima first hears Kabir Bedi's voice only.
Then she is introduced to him and is instantly smitten. As far as she herself
is concerned, this is love at first sight! |
| Winter
1968 |
During
Alyque Padamsee's
production of Marat Sade, Kabir Bedi's companion is
Indian dancer Protima. She had run away from home
because of Kabir Bedi. |
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1969 |
| October 14,
1969 |
Kabir Bedi marries
20-year-old Protima in a Buddhist wedding ceremony.
Protima is two months pregnant with Pooja.
Protima is the second daughter in a family of three daughters and a son.
Khushwant Singh writes on February 5, 2000 in his Tribune column, that he first
met the Bedis together in 1968, in the home of Gopi Gauba in Bombay. He had known
Kabir Bedi as a child in Lahore. According to Khushwant, "Kabir Bedi had
just ditched my friend B.C. Sanyal's daughter Amba to whom he was engaged and
was living with Protima..." |
| before
1970 |
Mrs. Freda
Bedi, Kabir Bedi's mother, first practised Theravada Buddhism
but
has become
a nun of Tibetan Buddhism faith and is now well-known as Sister
Khechog Palmo.
Together with the Head of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism,
his Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, she has founded Tilokpur,
a nunnery in Himachal Pradesh. |
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