How Kabir Bedi became an Italian sex symbol with the TV show 'Sandokan'
Kabir Bedi in Sandokan (1976) | Radiotelevisione Italiana Kabir Bedi’s recently published memoir Stories I Must Tell (Westland Books) has prominent sections on an Italian television show from 1976. That’s hardly surprising: titled Sandokan, the mini-series made the Indian actor a sensation in Italy and the rest of Europe and paved his path to Hollywood. Sandokan is the dashing pirate hero from nineteenth-century Italian writer Emilio Salgari’s novels. Sandokan’s wealthy parents have been killed by the East India Company, which is seeking to expand its control of...
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