Booknerds Podcast | Stories I Must Tell featuring Kabir Bedi
Key Highlights
- The Beatles in Delhi
- Writing Style
- Acting Experiences
- The Story of Kabir Bedi's parents
- Emilio Salgari and Sandokan
- Sergio Sollima and the books of Emilio Salgari
- How to stay sane as a celebrity?
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About the author
Kabir Bedi’s career has spanned three continents in three mediums --- film, tv and theatre --- in Bollywood, Europe and Hollywood for over three decades. He is most known for his roles in American television series The Bold and the Beautiful, the James Bond film Octopussy, his European series Sandokan, and his Bollywood blockbuster Khoon Bhari Maang. For Kabir, as Shakespeare said, “all the world’s a stage”. His Sandokan Italian series broke all broadcasting records in Europe. For his lifetime achievements, he was bestowed Italy’s highest civilian honour “Cavaliere”, a Knighthood. In theatre, he has starred at the Luminato Theatre Festival in Canada, in London’s West End, and in India as Alyque Padamsee’s “Othello” and “Tughlaq”. He is a longstanding voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the “Oscars”. He is known for his social causes in India, most specially for Sightsavers India, which has restored the sight of over 5 million blind and visually challenged for free, Kabir has just released his bestselling autobiography “Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life of an Actor” to great critical acclaim. Kabir Bedi lives with his wife, Parveen Dusanj, a producer, on Juhu Beach in Mumbai. About the book As Kabir bares his soul, the stories come tumbling out. That first magical encounter with the Beatles as a student in Delhi. The sudden move to Bombay, away from home, friends and college. His exciting years in advertising, his extraordinarily successful career abroad and his many painful setbacks. His relationships with the irrepressible Protima Bedi and the dazzling Parveen Babi that changed the course of his life. Of the scars they left, and the trauma of three divorces, and how he finally found fulfilment. And why his beliefs have changed. These are tumultuous stories set in Hollywood, Bollywood and Europe. The joys of blazing new trails abroad, and the dangers of them. He also tells the fascinating love story of his Indian father, a philosopher in Europe, and his British-born mother, the world’s highest-ranked Buddhist nun. And most poignant of all, the battle to save his schizophrenic son. Stories I Must Tell is the unusually candid and compelling memoir of a man who holds nothing back, in love or in storytelling. It is the story of a middle-class boy from Delhi whose career now spans the globe. Equally, it is the tale of how he survived the roller-coaster journey of the making, unmaking and remaking of him as a person.
