Sandokan is an interesting side-story for a Bollywood actor, Kabir Bedi whose ‘greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe’ (quoted from wikipedia).
One of my early childhood memories is watching this serial on Indian TV. I vaguely remembered a shot of Kabir Bedi killing a tiger in mid-leap and was glad to discover it also on youtube.
Here’s to some childhood memories and to Kabir Bedi who made it big………outside of the Indian cultural zone.
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir_Bedi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandokan
The Qalandariyya (reflections on an excellent video by Filip Holm, which I
saw just two weeks after the Urs of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar)
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Close to a month ago – between February 29 and March 3 – the annual
celebrations of the Urs of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar were held in Sehwan, Sindh,
Pakistan. I...
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all i remember of kabeer bedi is his flat toned graceful voice, kind of perfect for a host :-)...
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