When Parveen Babi ended her relationship with Kabir Bedi. Dirk Maggs has adapted and directed Neil Gaiman's seminal The Sandman comics into an audio drama for Audible. The group included the likes of Shekhar Kapur, Shabana Azmi, Jalal Agha, Danny Denzongpa, Kabir and Protima Bedi.

One would think that someone, who is born among riches and luxuries would have no real battles to fight. Born on April 4, 1949 in the princely state of Junagarh in the present day Gujarat, where her father, Vali Mohammed Khan Babi, was one of the Nawab’s administrators, Parveen’s life as presented by Upadhyay, comes across in four major phases. She then goes on to disrupt two marriages — that of Kabir Bedi and Mahesh Bhatt — and almost wrecks Danny’s relationship with rising starlet Kim Yashpal.The relationship with Bedi ended after she travelled with him to Italy in the wake of his success with the TV serial “Sandokan” and realised that he was the bigger star of the two and was receiving the kind of adulation that she had never received in Bombay.With Bhatt, it seemed more a clash of personalities and the first breakdown happened when neither of these two relationships worked out.The second breakdown apparently happened after “Arth” — the jury is divided on this — Bhatt’s semi-autobiographical film that laid bare her relationship with the filmmaker.The third phase centred around Amitabh Bachchan – but was it a case of unrequited love as this was one marriage she couldn’t disrupt? Her erratic behaviour was often defined as jealousy, possessiveness and territorial-ism by her lovers. Unfortunately for her, fate had other plans. It was here that she started shedding her shyness and gradually came out of her reserved shell.Ask your elders and they will happily reminisce about the rage that Parveen Babi created with her style and unique screen presence. Most of them lived around Juhu so it was called the Juhu Gang. Her last years were so disturbing that she couldn’t put a lid on her fear of the unknown. Even her driver, Hanuman Patre who worked with her through this decade, sings her praises because she treated him with the same respect and courtesy that she would show any director or producer. Powered by Indiatimes Lifestyle Network. Even repository libraries like Asiatic in Mumbai that are supposed to have everything that’s printed, don’t have old film magazines.For me, the most fascinating parts of Parveen’s life were those years she spent in Ahmedabad. This period added dimensions to her personality that most people wouldn’t have known about.As someone who loves films and trivia, there’s a little nugget of information about the song 'I don’t have a favourite Parveen film but there’s a scene in In the '70s, there was a social group that included actors, directors and star kids who often met and partied together. Why was she so paranoid about Bachchan?Upadhyay explains it thus in the book: “When she began working with Amitabh Bachchan as a co-star, what had started off as a desire and then an obsession to match his ‘perfection’ as an actor had, at some point, evolved into something far beyond that. Even when I was a Muslim, I didn't understand why it made me a more spiritual entity, if I did not eat pork. It’s been over 15 years since she left for her heavenly abode but the memory of the legendary Parveen Babi still stays afresh. FP Staff Parveen Babi truly lived life king-size, redefining the manner in which actresses portrayed themselves on the big screen, being cast in over 50 films with every Bollywood A-lister worth the name; appearing on the cover of TIME magazine and recovering from two mental breakdowns but in the end, dying a lonely death — sadly, just a name for the present day Hindi film industry and cine-goers alike. In this excerpt from Karishma Upadhyay's 'Parveen Babi… She also made numerous contributions to newspapers and magazines from 1973 to 1992. The bonus, of course, would be to bask in his love and occupy the centre of his world.”So, who was the bigger disrupter?


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