Kabir Bedi Opens Up On Bankruptcy During His Hollywood Days & Son’s Suicide: “It’s Very Humiliating…”

Actor Kabir Bedi is definitely a huge name in Bollywood. But in case you are unaware, the man has a fan following across the globe. People who consumed his content on Italian TV and films know him separately. For the English folks who saw him in the James Bond film Octopussy love him for the portrayal. But that doesn’t mean it was a hunky dory ride for the actor who got himself embossed on the world map.

In his recent interview, Kabir Bedi has spoken about going bankrupt while his days in Hollywood. The actor recalls the time his son died by suicide, and finding work in the west and making his own way. Below is all you need to know about the same and what Bedi exactly has to say about the same.

In an interview with Brut, Kabir Bedi recollected he “had no qualms about taking a white actor, painting him brown and giving him the role that you were best for.” Talking about how he tackled this, he said, “I adapted to this by saying, ‘Okay, I will simply play the foreigner in Hollywood. I don’t restrict myself to Asian or Indian.’ And therefore, the roles that I got, one of the huge roles that I got with Michael Caine in a film called Ashanti, I played a Tuareg tribesman.”