Shetty

1938–1982

M. B. Shetty was Hindi cinema's fight director through the 1960s and 1970s and appeared in the films he choreographed, usually as a henchman with a memorable face and few lines. Don, Shaan, Zanjeer.

He died at forty-four. His son Rohit Shetty became one of the most commercially successful directors of the 2010s, making the kind of action his father staged.