The role: He doesn't talk much though he smiles a lot. Smuggling, scheming and slaughtering is his job description. He relaxes by watching pretty young things shake a leg in elaborate dance sequences.

The impact: In one of his more refined villainous avatars, Raza Murad with his silvery white beard, wig and light contact lenses was every bit the caricaturish delight that the mean boys of Subhash Ghai's utterly entertaining Ram Lakhan stood for.

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