Biography:

Jackie Shroff is an Indian actor. He has been in the Gujarati cinema and Hindi cinema (Bollywood) industries for almost 3 decades and has appeared in over 151 films in Nine languages (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Punjabi and Oriya) .

Personal life

Shroff was born on 1 February 1957 as Jai Kishen Shroff into a Gujarati family to Kakubhai & Rita Shroff. They lived in a low income chawl in the Teen Batti area in Walkeshwar, Mumbai. Before entering the film industry, Shroff was a local toughie. He also modelled in a few advertisements. It was director/producer Subhash Ghai who gave Shroff his screen name "Jackie" when he launched him in the film Hero.

In the late 1980s, Jackie Shroff married his longtime girlfriend, Ayesha Dutt, who later turned film producer. The couple run a media company, Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited. They jointly owned 10% shares in Sony TV since its launch and in 2012 decided to sell their stake and end their 15-year-long association with Sony TV. The Shroffs have two children: a son, Tiger (Jai Hemanta), and a daughter, Krishna.

Since the late 1990s, Shroff seems to have moved away from lead roles in Hindi movies and has been seen more often in strong character roles.

Career

In 1983, Shroff made his acting debut in Dev Anand's movie, Swami Dada. In 1983, Subhash Ghai cast him in lead role for the movie, Hero, in which he was paired against Meenakshi Seshadri and the film went on to become a success. Later, Shroff continued to work in Subhash Ghai movies, irrespective of any role that was offered. After hero he did several others films among which Andar Baahar and Yudh were successful. In 1987 he did Karma which became the highest grossing film of 1987. His another film released after that was Kaash for which he gained huge critical acclaims. His films like Dehleez and Sachche Ka Bol Bala were also critically acclaimed but a commercial flop. He then gave award winning performance in 1989 hit film Parinda, for which he won his first filmfare award for best actor. After that he did films like Ram Lakhan, Hum Bhi Insaan Hain, Tridev, Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri, 100 Days, Saudagar, Angaar, Aaina and Khalnayak. which were commercially success full. He worked with Amitabh Bachchan in 1990 film Akayla, but the movie didn't do well. Shroff also gained huge critical acclaims for his performance in Gardish. After 1995 his films were not doing well. In 1997 he was seen in Agni Sakshi, which was successful. He was then seen in many films either in character role or in negative role. Jackie Shroff is considered as one of the greatest actor in the history of Indian Cinema.

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