India, April 17 -- Success in the film world often creates formula. Tom Cruise was seen as a promising dramatic actor before Mission Impossible turned him into an action star. Closer home, Shah Rukh Khan was typecast as the 'king of romance' for years despite his own attempts to break the type. But while these actors still managed to be at the pinnacle of their industries, there was one who was typecast so strongly that his career was defined by just one role, which he repeated in over 100 films. This is the story of the man who is arguably Bollywood's most typecast actor. (Also read: Jagdish Raj always played an endearing policeman: Mahesh Bhatt)

Jagdish Raj Khurana, known in the film circles as just Jagdish Raj, was an actor who worked...