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Protima Bedi — the model, dancer and ‘sanyasin’ who lived by her own rules

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The streaking that wasn’t

One of the first things people of a certain generation think of when the name Protima Bedi comes up is her ‘streaking’ along a road in South Bombay. But Bedi wrote that, actually, the incident wasn’t like that.

“The so-called streaking happened in Goa. I was spending a lot of time in those days with the hippies on Anjuna Beach. Everyone walked around naked there,” she wrote in her memoir, adding, “If you were in a swimming costume, you looked and felt odd. So I was a nudist like everyone else on the beach. Somebody must have taken a picture of me there, and what the magazine did was superimpose these pictures on a photograph of a Bombay street. And people were so gullible, nobody even questioned it. Wouldn’t have there been crowds in the picture if I had really done this in Bombay?”

She went on to say that she never regretted it, and in fact, found the media’s obsession with her every move after this surprising and rather amusing.

On his blog, Bollywood journalist Soumyadipta Banerjee wrote, “Protima Bedi went on defying every societal norm that every Indian woman was conditioned to believe as ‘normal’. But the streaking incident was not an isolated one. Protima, in fact, was one of the first women in India who was extremely comfortable in her body.”

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The call of Odissi

In her late 20s, wearing a halter top, fitted jeans and flaunting colourful streaks in her hair Protima was on her way to attend a fashion show and rock concert, but little did she know her life was about to change. She had grown up mocking anything related to Indian culture as for the “middle classes, the locals, the frogs-in-the-well who were not aware of the out

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Pooja Bedi

Indian actress (born 1970)

Pooja Bedi
Bedi in 2019
Born	(1970-05-11) 11 May 1970 (age 54) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Other names	Noorjahan
Occupations	Actress television presenter relationship columnist
Years active	1991–2020
Spouse	Farhan Ebrahim Furniturewala (m. 1994; div. 2003)
Children	2, including Alaya F
Parents
Family	Freda Bedi (grandmother)

Pooja Bedi (born 11 May 1970) is an Indian actress, television talk show host and newspaper columnist. She is the daughter of Indian actors Kabir Bedi and Protima Bedi. She appeared in the reality television shows Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, Nach Baliye, Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi and Bigg Boss.

Early life

Pooja Bedi was born 11th May 1970 in Bombay (present-day Mumbai) to the late Indian classical dancer Protima and actor Kabir Bedi. She is of Punjabi Sikh and British ancestry on her father's side and Bengali and Haryanvi ancestry on her mother's side. She was brought up in what she calls a "bohemian progressive artistic environment".

Career

Career beginnings (1991–2006)

From 1991 to 1995, Bedi worked in Bollywood films and appeared in many commercials and campaigns, notably the KamaSutra condom campaign which she endorsed and used as a vehicle to raise awareness of AIDS.

She made her film debut with Jag Mundhra's film Vishkanya (1991). She went on to act in Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander (1992) with Aamir Khan.Her other films include Lootere (1993) and Aatank Hi Aatank (1995).

Debut in reality shows and beyond (2006–2020)

In 2000, she compiled and edited Timepass, the memoirs of her mother Protima Bedi. She has been a columnist with the Times of India, the Hindustan Times, and MiD DAY newspapers, and has written articles fo

Timepass: The Memoirs of Protima Bedi

In 1974, pictures appeared in magazines and newspapers of Protima Bedi streaking down a road in the centre of Bombay in broad daylight. There was immediate uproar. The incident was, in many ways, the culmination of a life of youthful rebellion and brash sexuality that Protima, the scandalous model and wife of the rising star of Bollywood, Kabir Bedi, had lived ever since she ran away from home to live ýin siný. Barely four years later, the glamorous flower child had reinvented herself as an accomplished classical dancer, a devotee of Goddess Kali, and chosen the sari over slit skirts and halter-necks. Shortly before her death in 1998, she had shaved her head and decided on a monkýs life. She died in August 1998, in a landslide in the Himalayas while on a pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar, leaving behind her most lasting achievementýa flourishing dance village, Nrityagram, where students continue to learn the classical dance styles of India.Few lives have been more eventful and controversial than Protima Bediýs, and Timepass, derived from her unfinished autobiography, journals and her letters to family, friends and lovers, is a startlingly frank and passionate memoir. Protima recounts with unflinching honesty the events that shaped her life: her humiliation as a child at being branded the ugly duckling, repeated rape by a cousin when she was barely ten, the failure of her ýopený marriage with Kabir Bedi, her many sexual encounters, and the romantic relationships she had with prominent politicians and artistes. She writes, too, of her intense involvement with dance, her relationship with her guru and fellow dancers, the difficult mission of establishing Nrityagram, and the suicide of her sonýa tragedy from which she never fully recovered. In a moving epilogue to the book, her daughter, Pooja Bedi, describes her last days and the circumstances of her death.

Protima Bedi

Indian model and Odissi exponent

Protima Gauri Bedi (12 October 1948 – 18 August 1998) was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. In 1990, she established Nrityagram, a dance school in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Early life

Protima was born in Delhi on 12 October 1948, the second of four children, three daughters, and a son. Her father was Laxmichand Gupta, a trader belonging to a business family from the Karnal district, Haryana, and her mother Reba, was of Bengali by origin.

In 1953, her family moved to Goa, and later, in 1957, they moved to Mumbai. At the age of nine, she was sent to stay at her aunt's home in a village in the Karnal district for a while, where she studied in a local school. On her return, she was sent to Kimmins High School, Panchgani, where she received her early education. She graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay (1965–67).

Career

Modeling career

By the late 1960s, she started working as a model. In 1974, she came into the news for streaking during the daytime at Juhu Beach in Mumbai for the launch of the Bollywood magazine Cineblitz.

Dance career

You have only to ready yourself to allow things to happen as they should. The greatest favour you can do yourself is to 'get out of your own way'.
- Protima Bedi, Timepass: Memoirs of Protima Bedi

In August 1975, at the age of 26, viewing an Odissi dance recital changed her life, inspiring her to become a student of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. Under the Guru's tutelage, she learned the art of dancing, practising for 12 to 14 hours a day.

To hone her dancing skills, she started studying abhinaya from Guru Kalanidhi Narayanan of Madras. From then on, she began giving performances around the country. Around the same time, Protima started her dance school at Prithvi Theatre in Juhu, Mumbai. It later became the Odissi Danc