Kabir Bedi

He was the Greek god - tall with a sexy body, a killer smileand fascinating eyes which changed colour with his moods. Protima was dying for his attention but she would not have him think that she lusted for him.

In her book Timepass, she says how secretly she would go through his appointment diary at Bensons and then land up with a new boyfriend wherever he was to come. Kabir never seemed to notice her enough until at a dinner party organised by her friends Nani and Kabir Ghumman. In a silvered night, with the senses heightened with the pot they had smoked, Kabir and Protima were soon in each other's arms.

"This was the night when he would fall truly and madly in love with me. My life will never be the same again…" Protima was very soon to move in with Kabir.

"The idea of living in sin with Kabir was so utterly wicked, fascinating. We lived like man and wife. Of course, it was a game. Mending his clothes, cooking for your man, all things which married women find such a bore." Marriage was not on their minds but with Protima pregnant, Kabir suggested they marry.

Kabir, then, was still a struggling actor while Protima was a well-known model known for her wild ways. Soon, Kabir was to gain popularity in films and the roles would reverse. It would also mark the beginning of the first sign of disenchantment in the relationship. The rose tinted love glasses were falling away

At the film parties, starlets flocked to the handsome Kabir and unabashedly lusted for him. Sonia Sahni, a friend of Protima told her once: "Don't be selfish with your husband. You have him all your life. Let us share him now."

But these small flirtations (Kabir caught kissing one of her friends (Gita) hungrily in their bedroom, Kabir and Zeenat Aman, Kabir and Parveen) flared into ugly quarrels.

When she confronted him with his flings he would say: "In my line it is very important that women are attracted to me. If an actress wants you then she chases you and if she does not get you then she suggests your name to a producer…one has to play this game."

Was this the shy, beautiful, sensitive Kabir to whom she had been attracted?

Her star-struck attachment to Kabir vanished. She just did not feel sexually attracted to him anymore, and soon, both were looking for sex and companionship outside marriage.