Most of us are likely to remember 1994 hit Bollywood song from the action-packed drama Mohra called Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast. Who can forget the glamorous Raveena Tandon pelvic-thrusting her way into so many Indians' imaginations in white couture? But it is possible that only a handful can recall the end bit of the song where Suniel Shetty barges in to take on Tej Sapru, who played a bad guy, and in the midst of all that hullabaloo hurls and pins a bearded man in a black sherwani onto a table. That man was Abdul Rashid Mehta.

Mehta, who has been circuiting on the fringes of the industry for the last 42 years, has worked as actor, stunt director and double in several classic hits of yore. Having started his career with the 1978 blockbuster Satyam Shivam Sundaram starring Zeenat Aman and Shashi Kapoor, the veteran went on to star in seminal Hindi films, including Gaddar, Janbaaz, Deewana, Saathi and Eena Meena Deeka. What's inspiring though, is how at 59, he's going strong as an action director.