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In 1976, a six-part television epic turned an Indian actor into a weekly obsession across large parts of Europe. That show was Sandokan, and the actor was Kabir Bedi. The story of how a European adaptation of adventure novels made an Indian performer a transnational star is the clearest proof that Kabir Bedi’s international renown, rooted in television reach, cultural penetration, and longevity, deserves to be treated as a different kind of global stardom than the later Bolly