Bruce Lee the first Chinese star to break the international market, impacted popular culture with his own iconoclastic approach to self defense, Jiddu Krishnamurti is often sited as a conceptual influence.
He was one of eleven children, five of whom died during childhood.
The film Maarg directed by Mahesh Bhatt was based on his life.
He was believed to be intellectually disabled as a child and was beaten regularly at school and by his father.