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Seated on her Bullet Electra, Gul Panag takes a ride down memory lane as Sarmad Kadiri discovers the brilliant personality behind the sultry actor
Adrenaline junky, biker, long distance runner, tourer and an animal lover – words rarely used to describe a Miss India winner or a sizzling Bollywood actress. I caught up with the gorgeous Gul Panag and tried to solve the mystery of how she became an avid biker.
With a hint of nostalgia in her tone she talks about how bikes are in her genes. Her father was in the army and owned a prized classic bike – the Indian, way back in the 1960s. Later, when Gul was at an impressionable age of seven years her cousin sisters were one of the first girls who rode bikes – most women preferred scooters then. She animatedly explained how her cousin sisters zoomed on a Yamaha RD 350 at 90km/h in a busy market street leading a pack of biker boys. She says, “The sound of the RD was like music to my ears” with respect in her eyes that only a biker can have.
