Kabir Bedi – star actor: ‘I wanted to write a book on her’ – now producing series on his English freedom fighter Freda… (video)

KABIR BEDI is one of India’s best known actors and has done a veritable roll call of international work, including James Bond (Octopussy) and Italian series, ‘Sandokan’ – receiving that country’s highest civilian honour – ‘Cavaliere’. He has also featured in one of the globe’s best known and longest-running TV series ever, ‘The Bold and The Beautiful’.
He is well-known too as a compere and VoiceOver artist and has appeared on the Dias at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and Film Bazaar many times.
He is now looking to make a TV/webseries on his late mother Freda – an Englishwoman who married an Indian, knew Mahatma Gandhi and fought for India’s freedom and then become the first fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist female monk of European origin. In this interview, Kabir talks to Sailesh Ram, www.asianculturevulture.com editor about that and upcoming work .

Production credits
Producer/presenter: Sailesh Ram (http://www.asianculturevulture.com)
Camera/editor: Nat Barrass (NatBollywood)