Kabir Bedi Honoured With Lifetime Award At The Venice Film Festival

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In Venice, the veteran Indian actor Kabir Bedi was given an award for his whole career. The all-time favourite Italian TV show, Sandokan, is part of 

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his body of work there. Bedi was given the Filming Italy Movie Lifetime Achievement Award at the Italian Pavilion working space, which was set up 

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the prestigious award was given to the Indian actor by the well-known producer and actor Tiziana Rocca and the head of the DGCA-MiC special projects division, Roberto Stabile. 

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Kabir, who worked for a long time in Italy, has been trying to improve relations between India and Italy for the past forty years. During his speech, 

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the actor said, "I have tried for many years to get people in Italy to care about India and get people in India to care about Italy."  

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"Since Sandokan, I've done more than six major series in Italy, and not many people know that Bollywood and Hollywood are a much smaller part of my life than my career in Italy," he said. 

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Kabir also said that he started looking for work outside of India when he realised he couldn't play the typical singing-dancing Indian leading man in 

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Bollywood, which he rarely did. The 76-year-old actor said that when he went to Italy at that time, the country welcomed him with open arms. 

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Sandokan was the first. The 1976 TV show, which was based on books by Emilio Salgari and starred the dashing pirate hero Sandokan, who fought 

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against the British colonisers, caught the attention of the Italian public and set a record audience share of 34%. 

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There were a number of TV shows and movies with the character after the first one. 

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