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Kabir Bedi (Punjabi: ਕਬੀਰ ਬੇਦੀ) is an Indian television and film actor. His career has spanned three continents including India, the United States and many European countries in three mediums: film, television and theatre. He is noted for his role as Emperor Shah Jahan in Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story. He is best known in Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the highly popular TV mini series and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy. He is very popular in Italy in particular, and is fluent in Italian.
Kabir Bedi is based in India and lives in Mumbai.
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 British mother, Freda Bedi, later converted to Tibetan Buddhism. His father, Baba Pyare Lal Bedi, a Punjabi Sikh, was an author and philosopher.Kabir Bedi did his schooling at Sherwood College, Nainital, and graduation from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
Bedi married three times and has three children, Pooja, Siddharth and Adam. He was married to Protima Bedi, an Odissi dancer. Their daughter Pooja Bedi grew up to be an actress in Hindi films. She is now a magazine/newspaper columnist[dated info]. Their son, Siddharth, who went to university in the USA, had a long history of schizophrenia and committed suicide in 1997 at the age of 26.