India, Aug. 21 -- Actor Pooja Bedi's mother, model-classical dancer Protima Gauri nee Bedi, died during a landslide in 1998 during a pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar. In an interview with Subhash K Jha for SCREEN, Pooja revealed that her mother's body was never found after the tragedy. Here's what she said.

Pooja said in the interview that she regrets her mom, Protima, dying before she could turn 50, but claimed that she had died the way she wanted. She said, "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."

Explaining further, she re...