Mumbai, Oct. 8 -- Remember the moment The Jungle Book would begin on Doordarshan and the room would suddenly go quiet?

For several 90s kids, Mowgli's jungle was full of characters they loved: Baloo, Bagheera and the wolves who protected him. But there was one character who could instantly make things a little more frightening: Shere Khan. In the Hindi version, it was Nana Patekar's voice that gave the tiger that edge.

Patekar, who died at the age of 75 on Thursday, was known for his intense performances in films such as Parinda, Krantiveer and Ab Tak Chhappan. But long before social media clips and memes turned his voice and expressions into a part of popular internet culture, his voice had already become familiar to an entire generatio...