Did Protima Bedi Have a Premonition About Her Death? Pooja Bedi Answers
Pooja Bedi opened up about her mother Protima Bedi’s death during her recent interview. Protima was a model-turned dancer who also founded a dance school near Bangalore in 1990. Pooja revealed that her mother always wanted to be closer to nature, and she passed away as per her desire, in the lap of nature.
She shared, “There are so many regrets about her leaving the planet before she even turned 50. There is so much that I wish I had done with her. But she was a woman who lived life on her terms. She lived the way she wanted, and she literally died the way she wanted. She always said she wanted to die out in nature and, you know, be one with nature.”
Pooja explained that her mother did not want to be pushed into some crematorium with a mock ceremony of her ashes being immersed in the Ganga. She wanted to die out in nature. “And that’s exactly the way it panned out. Her body was never found. You know, it was one with the universe, one with the earth. She was just this incredible energy,” she continued.
During the chat, she was asked if Protima had a premonition about her death, to which she revealed that her late mother had written out her will and handed all her jewellery to Pooja before leaving for Kulu Manali. She continued, “She came to me, wrote out her will, handed me her jewellery, handed me all her documents, handed me her property papers, and said, ‘You never know.’ I said, ‘Why are you being so dramatic?’ And she just said, ‘You never know, darling.’ She’d handed me everything that she ever possessed. And she said, ‘Siddhartha’s (Pooja’s brother) no more, he’s committed suicide. I’ve handed over Nrityagram to Lynn Fernandez. You’re my only mooring. I want you to let me go.'”
After Protima went to Kulu Manali, she wrote Pooja a 12-page letter summarising her entire life from her birth, childhood, to marriage, relationships, kids and her journey as a dancer.
She added, “She wrote me a 12-page letter summarising her entire life from birth, from her childhood, to her relationships, to her marriages, to her kids, to her dance journey, to where she was before her death, saying, ‘I’m in Kullu, Kullu means Valley of the Gods, and may all the gods and goddesses know of my eternal gratitude, I’m happy. I’m so very, very happy.’ And then she went off, and that was the last we ever heard from her. So what a journey, what a life, what a woman, what a mother.”
Protima Bedi passed away in 1998 in the Malpa landslide.
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