“When I saw Odissi it could have been Kuchipudi or Thai for all I cared. No one knew Odissi then. I S Johar once introduced my performance saying 'Now for Protima Bedi's Udipi performance.' But when I saw it I knew that is what I wanted to do -- whatever it was. There was something so sensuously spiritual about it. I think I must have wanted that so much in my life.”

— Protima Bedi

On her first experience and fascination for Odissi dance quoted in "I have been a hippie all my life".

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Indian model and dancer 1948–1998

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