Mandira Bedi opens up on facing sexism while hosting cricket World Cup; 'The legends sitting on…'

Mandira Bedi did not just make a name for herself in the acting industry, she became one of the most popular cricket hosts too. Back in 2003, Mandira Bedi ventured into sports by becoming a co-host for World Cup. However, in her recent interaction with Humans of Bombay, Mandira Bedi revealed how her journey wasn’t easy and she would cry at the end of every day as ‘legends’ on the panel would not acknowledge her questions.

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Mandira Bedi started off by stating that it was not easy for her as people were not used to having a woman sitting on the panel. She spoke about the legends who weren’t quite excited about having a woman on the panel. She would ask a question and that would simply get ignored, she recalled. Mandira Bedi was quoted saying, “I would ask a question, some of my questions were really silly, irrelevant, stupid, but my brief was, ‘You ask the questions that come to your mind. Whatever you have in your mind, it’s not off the table, go ahead and ask’. So, if I have those questions in my mind, then somebody at home has got similar questions in their mind. I am not supposed to represent the purist, I am supposed to represent the common person.”

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Mandira Bedi further recalled that after a week, the channel called for an intervention. She said that she would put her head down and cry and she was just miserable. “I was just miserable and nobody said anything to me for the first one week. I was stuttering and stumbling and I was nervous, and I was not getting any support from anywhere. I had a co-host. His questions were acknowledged,” read a comment made by Mandira Bedi. But the channel intervened and asked her to bring some fun element to the boring panel. Things changed from hereon. She then hosted many cricket events after that and became known for her hosting skills.