Popular yesteryear actor, Ranjeet Bedi opened up about his repeated portrayal of the hateful villain on-screen who molested women and pulled their sarees.
Ranjeet Bedi, popularly hailed as ‘Ranjeet the rapist’ was known for his roles as the iconic villain, who took pleasure in disrespecting women, molesting them and even pulling their sarees. Films like Reshma Aur Shera, Amar Akbar Anthony, Naagin, Suhaag, Rocky, Sarfarosh among others, are a few of his popular films where he played the evil baddie. For the unversed, Ranjeet was originally named as Gopal Bedi and has only seldom portrayed positive roles on-screen.
In a recent interview with Lehren Retro, Ranjeet recalled a particular time in his career back in the 70s and 80s, when he had 80 films in his kitty in their production stage, each one of it requiring him to portray the meaty, villainous, woman-molester kind of roles. In fact, he also mentioned getting fed up of doing such roles so frequently, as he was either molesting or pulling the saree of an actress in these films. Remarking how it made him question his own talent and scope of work, Ranjeet mentioned:
"I was once fed up doing the same thing. I asked myself that for whom do I work so much.”
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In his personal life, Ranjeet happens to be a completely different person, than what he is popularly known for his roles in the movies. He is a totally calm, respectful and humble human when it comes to his life behind the camera. However, while the audience hated him for his villainous roles, he never expected that his bad guy image would even take a toll on his personal life. Well, in a previous interview with ETimes, Ranjeet had mentioned how his wife, Aloka Bedi’s relatives advised that she should have been drowned or poisoned, rather than marrying him. In his words:
“One of my wife's relatives was livid when she found out she had been married to me. So they told my mother-in-law that she should've instead poisoned or drowned her daughter than letting her marry me."
In one of his previous interviews with Filmfare, Ranjeet spoke about a time in his life when he used to receive a lot of titillating, abusive and even threatening messages from women, due to his reputation as the evil guy in the movies. Recalling how he always dismissed them, and remained loyal to his wife and kids, Ranjeet added how he never two-timed with any other woman in his life.
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