The legendary Sandokan of the 1970s TV drama and former vippone of the GF has found serenity alongside Parveen, thirty years younger
Pietro Guerrini
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Degree in Literature, longing for travel and passion for cartoons (pizza and Pixar).
Kabir Bedi he achieved fame in Italy, the country that became his new “home” after the incredible success of Sandokan in the seventies. Since then the Indian actor, naturalized Italian, has taken part in numerous local productions alternating between Bel Paese, Bollywood and some appearances in Hollywood. If, on the one hand, Bedi’s career has been dotted with successeshowever, the private life it wasn’t always downhill. But how is the actor today? Let’s find out all the details of its history.
Kabir Bedi: Who is his partner
Born in Lahore (now Pakistan) in 1946, Kabir Bedi he achieved international fame in 1976, when he recorded Sergio Sollima he chose him to interpret Sandokan, the legendary pirate and “Malaysian tiger” born from the pen of Emilio Salgari, in the television drama of the same name. The Indian actor is one of the symbols of Bollywood in his country, where he has taken part in more than sixty films, but his fame abroad and in Italywhere – after the incredible success of Sandokan – led him to participate in various series, from Beautiful to A doctor in the family. Bedi was also a castaway de The Island of the Famous in 2004 and his last television appearance in Italy dates back to the last edition of Gf Vip where, during one episode, he was also joined and encouraged by his wife Parveen Dusanji. Thirty years younger, producer with a degree in Economics, Parveen has married Kabir after ten years of relationship despite his family’s doubts, since the actor came from well four divorces (with Protima Bedi, with whom he had two children, Susan Humphreys, with whom he had another child, Parveen Babi and Nikki Vijaykar).
The bankruptcy and suicide of the son
One of the most difficult moments in the career of Kabir Bedi it was the arrival of Financial problemswhile private life was turned upside down by suicide of second son Siddarth, born from his first marriage. “Mine is a story of great successes and tragedies, such as the loss of my son or that of having made bad investments in America and ending up bankrupt” the actor told Serena Bortone in 2021. Suffering from schizophrenia, Siddarth took his life in 1997, aged just 25; Bedi has spoken several times aboutenormous pain for not being able to fight an incurable disease like his son’s, but over time he also knew accept what happened precisely out of respect for him: “He could no longer live like this. We must respect his decision.”
