Kabir Bedi Birthday 2024: The actor who was born on January 16, 1946 has had a rich and illustrious film career that spanned five decades, three continents, three languages, and three mediums. He remains among the first international actors from India who started from Hindi films, worked in Hollywood and then became a superstar in Europe. On his birthday today, we look at his international film journey that gave him international recognition. 

Kabir Bedi was born in Lahore in the Punjab Province of British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan) into a Punjabi Khatri Sikh family. His father, 'Baba Pyare Lal Singh Bedi, was an author and philosopher. His mother, Freda Bedi, was a British woman born in Derby, England, who became famous as the first Western woman to take ordination in Tibetan Buddhism.