THE HERO SHOT
GQ India|May - June 2021
Kabir Bedi’s memoir is a fascinating look into the actor’s tryst with fame and fortune. Here, he tells Nidhi Gupta why he felt the need to document his rich, nonnormative life and make it raw, real and revelatory
Nidhi Gupta
THE HERO SHOT

Few things in literature remain as compelling to pick up as a movie star’s autobiography. Kabir Bedi’s memoir does everything you expect from a tell-all of this nature: Forgotten ground is retraced, with candour, as he talks about his “making, breaking and remaking”. But his book also offers a snapshot of the entertainment industry as it functioned at a global scale, before the internet took over.

The original crossover star, Bedi cut a dashing figure on screen and stage for most of the second half of the 20th century. Along with being a consummate performer – Khoon Bhari Maang, Octopussy, The Bold And The Beautiful, Sandokan and many more – he’s lived a rich and colourful life, never quite following the norm. At 75, he’s reckoning with it all in his evocative memoir, Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Journey Of An Actor (Westland Publications).

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