New Delhi, July 3 -- It is often said that Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, and Aamir Khan are the last true-blue superstars of Bollywood. While debates continue over who among the newer generation deserves that title, names like Yash, Prabhas, Nagarjuna, and Mammootty from South Indian cinema are widely regarded as pan-India superstars today.

Long before them, alongside Rajesh Khanna-the first superstar of Indian cinema-there was another actor in the 1980s who shot to fame overnight with a blockbuster debut. However, his stardom was short-lived, as he failed to recreate the same magic in his subsequent films, earning him the tag of Bollywood's "shortest-lived" superstar.

We are talking about actor Kumar Gaurav.

Born as Manoj Tuli in Luckn...