Veteran Indian actor Amrish Puri is dead

The undisputed king of Bollywood's baddies, Amrish Puri, died yesterday at the age of 72 after a long illness, a hospital spokesman said in India's film capital.

Famous for his role as underworld don Mogambo in the 1989 movie Mr India, Puri slipped into a coma after a blood clot in his brain.

The man everyone loved to hate was one of the first Bollywood stars to successfully cross into Hollywood - he played bad guy Mola Ram in Steven Speilberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Puri shaved his head for the role and it created such an impression that he kept his head shaved thereafter.