[2][3] He had a towering personality with a bald head, often cast as the villain brought down by heroes half his size.

He started as a waiter in Cotton Green after which he got into boxing and bodybuilding.

He was cast as villain and composed stunts for numerous Hindi and Kannada cinema in the 1970s.

Ramachandran (MGR), in Navarathinam (1977) Tamil movie.

With his second wife, Ratna, he had another son, the film director Rohit Shetty.