"I wasn't very good at singing and dancing and I soon realised that that could be a big liability if I wanted to be a leading man in Bollywood," he said, with a booming laugh." After the success of 'Sandokan', he moved on to English films, memorably starring in The Thief Of Baghdad (1978) and the James Bond film Octopussy (1983) before going on to have a major role in the popular American soap 'The Bold And The Beautiful'. In hindsight, it turned out to be the best decision he could have made. "I'd just had a big hit with Kuchhe Dhaage and was getting several lead and co-starrer roles," he said, "so I thought, 'What should I do?' So at first I thought, fine, let me take six months off and do the Italian show, and we'll see." When he first got the role after auditioning for it, Bedi says he was a little hesitant to take it up. He later went on to appear in Dev Anand's Ishq Ishq Ishq (1974) and Mahesh Bhatt's controversial directorial debut Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain (1974). Bedi's first breakout role in Hindi cinema was with Kuchhe Dhaage (1973), which also starred Vinod Khanna and Nirupa Roy. People clicked photos with me and asked for autographs because of Sandokan, because it has been dubbed into Bulgarian and shown there," he said.Īs we celebrate Priyanka Chopra's lead role in the American TV drama 'Quantico', currently in its first season, it is pertinent to remember that Bedi was our first real international star. Earlier this year, Bedi was in Bulgaria, shooting for Rohit Shetty's Dilwale (which releases in less than fortnight). "It got such enormous success in Europe that some of those records haven't been broken till today," says Bedi, in a chat with HuffPost India soon after the launch.
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