The villain will be missed

He is best known for his epic fight scene with Amitabh Bachchan in the 1978 blockbuster Don. Always choosing the role of the evildoer,Bob Christo often played the stereotypical ‘firang’ right-hand man of the main villain. Christo,originally from Australia,starred in over 200 movies,and also acted in many Kannada,Tamil and Malayalam films. He took a hiatus from movies in 2003,but was making his comeback in a yet-to-be-named Akshay Kumar-starrer. But he suffered a heart attack in Bengaluru on Saturday,and passed away on Sunday. Christo was also a yoga instructor and,in his younger days,a visiting professor at business schools in the US.