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APRIL
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EDITOR'S NOTES
The first three trial issues of this newsletter have
been a great success! Many thanks to all trial readers
for your comments and suggestions, and I hope you enjoy
the final version.
Andrea Verschuur, early April 2003
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KABIR
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"I feel more connected with Bollywood
now." - Kabir in India in a March 12, 2003, interview
with rediff.com.
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| KABIR'S
WORK |
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TOP
STORY
KABIR IN SPAIN
Early April, jet-setter Kabir hit Spain to promote contemporary
Hindi-language movies and indulge in a bit of his favourite
activity: handing out awards!
More details, and pictures of a good-looking Kabir,
to appear on www.kabir-bedi.com in the next couple of
days!
OTHER
NEWS
SANDOKAN
IN SICILY
Sandokan rides again in a new Indo-Italian co-production!
Kabir once more becomes the Tiger of Mompracem - the
best ever!, this time to please a sick Italian girl
and get embroiled with the Sicilian mafia. But in contrast
to his earlier Sandokan roles, Kabir now plays himself
as a successful Bollywood star (that should be easy
enough!) and this Sandokan story is set today.
Check out Kabir's new project SANDOKAN IN SICILY in
the MOVIES IN DETAIL section.
KABIR WINS AN INDIAN OSCAR™!
Kabir became one of four winners of the annual Abby
Awards, the Oscars of the Indian advertising industry,
on March 16, 2003.
Kabir won a Distinctive Recognition Award for a career that
began in the late 1960s, when he became a model in Will's
cigarettes commercials.
Check out THE LATEST NEWS on all things Kabir in the
GAZZETTA DI MOMPRACEM NEWS section.
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KABIR'S FILMS
THE HERO
Kabir's movie THE HERO will now be released on and around
April 10, 2003 - which just happens to be director Anil
Sharma's birthday! The main event will be the April 10
premiere in Bombay, although the film will be shown a
day earlier in Calcutta. Kabir plays Zakaria, a Kashmir
businessman living in exile who supports the region's
freedom fighters.
Kabir's daughter in the movie, Shayna, played by Priyanka
Chopra, is one of the two main female parts - that
should give Kabir an interesting part, too. A
major advertising effort is under way for the film - even
the female stars' costumes will be available in fashion
shops in the next few weeks.
All of Bollywood is keeping its fingers crossed that this
will be the mega-blockbuster that pulls the ailing industry
out of its quagmire...
Check out THE HERO, including links to trailers starring
Kabir, on www.kabir-bedi.com later this month!
TAJ MAHAL - AN ETERNAL LOVE
STORY
According to some news reports, the release date for Kabir's
other mega-project has been changed from August to Monday,
December 1, 2003.
Check out Kabir's WORK IN DETAIL for further information
on these and other movies by Kabir, as well as the list
of Kabir's more than 125 FILMS and the FORTHCOMING PROJECTS
page - all in the WORK section.
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| PICTURES OF KABIR
The LINKS section is now online again, and links to
some
stunning pictures of Kabir in a romantic mood, taken
in spring 2001 in his Bombay apartment.
More to come in this section.
More pictures of a dashing Kabir will be posted to the
SNAPSHOT section in the next few days.
They were taken in early April 2003 in Spain and will
replace the picture of Kabir on the set of TAJ MAHAL.AN
ETERNAL LOVE STORY.
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| KABIR
FOR FANS |
KABIR
ALERT!
Kabir will appear soon on German-language
TV in:
Beast of War/Bestie Krieg (APRIL)
Tom Clancy's OP Center/Countdown des Schreckens (APRIL)
Murder, She Wrote/Mord ist ihr Hobby (MAY).
Kabir will appear again on American TV, this time in Murder,
She Wrote (APRIL).
Kabir's Sandokan Co-Stars CAROLE ANDRE, PHILIPPE LEROY
and - NEW! - LORENZO CRESPI will also appear in April
and in May on German-language television.
No MANDALA TAYDE broadcasts known for April (as of April
2, 2003).
Check out the TV LISTINGS section for dates and times
as well as current and hot new listings.
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KABIR - FAN ART
Some great new drawings by long-time Kabir fans Cristina
and Gitte are now online, and more art by Kabir's devoted
Hungarian fan Sissy is on its way to the FANART & FICTION
section.
Your own contributions are very welcome! Please contact
me via the site (FANS section).
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| AND FINALLY...
I have put the picture galleries of MICHELE MERCIER,
unforgettable as ANGELIQUE.MARQUISE DES ANGES online
again. I will update the information about her in the
filmography.
If I find the time, I will also re-publish the picture
galleries of Michèle's co-star, ROBERT HOSSEIN, the
dashing hero of Anne and Serge Golon's books.
The picture galleries of both stars include many other
films apart from their world-success ANGELIQUE.
Check out the ANGELIQUE section for details.
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LINK TIP OF THE MONTH
"Can you please tell me if the subject
is still alive?" - That's surely one of the strangest
questions I've had in the past five years as a webmaster
of both kabir-bedi.com and armand-assante.com!
You'll be relieved to hear both are very much alive
and kicking!
To see if reports of anyone else's death are greatly
exaggerated - including Kabir's co-stars Adolfo Celi,
Roger Moore, Joan Collins or, in fact, any other star
- check out the
Dead
People Server Homepage
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