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Pooja Bedi
An irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
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Pic courtesy: Kaya skin clinic
Casually dressed in sequenced sparkling jeans, and a pastel pink tank-top, her luscious locks cascading to her waist, Pooja Bedi, TV's numero uno television anchor takes a seat. Today, though, she's in the hot-seat. We catch up with the star at her tastefully yet understated seaside residence in the suburbs of Mumbai.
In a short span of a decade, Pooja has catapulted into one of India's top anchors on air today. To refresh your memory, she was the Kamasutra model, a film actress she starred in Kavykansh (debut film 1991), Mahesh Bhatt's Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee (1993), and the popular Jo Jeeta Who Sikander (remember the famous Pehle Nasha song opposite Aamir Khan?) where she played an effervescent and a bubbly young woman.
Real life vs reel life
Her off screen life hasn't been exempt from some of the colour, drama and heartbreak one finds on the big screen. She has dealt with marriage, motherhood, divorce, deaths (her mother), remarriage (her father's). Somewhere in the confusion of the mundane, at the point that is beyond our control, where the hands of fate lift one from the doldrums, Pooja found the strength and wherewithal to re-emerge in the limelight stronger, wiser and matured.
The transformation from playing fictional characters to hosting a news-based television show may seem natural and effortless at first glance, but at a deeper perusal, Pooja, known for being opinionated, liberated, and driven represents a symbol of individualism we all strive to reach. Only in this scenario it is meshed with the genteel and proper upbringing meted by her father, international film actor Kabir Bedi, contrasted with the diametrically opposite wild, creativity, spill-over flower child influences of mother famous Odissi dancer Protima Bedi (who died in a tragic avalanche in 1998).
Choices and marriage
"Choices are the most important ingredient to inner happiness," says Pooja. "And at times they are not always easy." Her eight year marriage to, Farhan, ended amicably and both admit to being great friends and parents to their two children. "I had the typical fairytale beginning and fairytale ending in my marriage. And I went into it with my eyes open. I knew my husband for twelve years and we were engaged for three. The best part of our lives together is that he accepted me and still does accept me for me."
The factors leading to the inevitable breakdown of their relationship also are not from the realm of the usual. Pooja candidly states, "I wanted a Mills and Boon happily ever after type life. Except they don't tell you what you're supposed to do after the happily ever after. I felt stagnated, not so much in my career, but through my own spirit. At this time I felt an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired, "she admits..
One of her key mottos has always been to follow her inner instincts. "I think my upbringing has played a pivotal role in shaping me as a person without doubt. From my parents, I have derived a spirit of adventure which can not be frightened into conformity."
Paradoxes
"Conformity" and Pooja are paradoxes. She's abrasively sensitive, incisively kind, beautifully smart, and individually mainstream.
She continues, "I am not scared that I wasn't scared to take the chance and try again," she states matter-of-factly. "Many women continue to simmer in resentment under the fear of what will happen if... I just did it," she pauses for a moment.
"I have been fortunate that both my ex-husband and I could end something with love that was started with love. And, I believe, I received that unconditional love you read about from my parents."
Parents: Protima and Kabir Bedi
"I believe in self-worth. This I have learned from my mother. She was the true rebel in every sense of the word. She just didn't live life, when she was alive, on her terms; she created each and every minute. Why minute she made each and every second count. My mother in a word can be described as inspiring, extremely passionate, and uninhibited..." She stops before continuing. "My only regret was that I didn't stop her from taking the pilgrimage."
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