When I saw Odissi it could have been Kuchipudi or Thai for all I cared. No one knew Odissi then. I S Johar once introduced my performance saying 'Now for Protima Bedi's Udipi performance.' But when I saw it I knew that is what I wanted to do — whatever it was. There was something so sensuously spiritual about it. I think I must have wanted that so much in my life.

On her first experience and fascination for Odissi dance quoted in "I have been a hippie all my life".