STRUGGLE OF JACKIE SHROFF

» ••Jackie Shroff •• «

A Mumbai youth, Jaikishen Shroff didn't have it easy, and going by most reports, the boy took to the wrong side of the tracks and entered
the acquaintance of local ruffians. For a while, Jaikishen became Jaggu in South Bombay's Teen Patti, a small-time dada.

Still, there must have been something inherently magnetic about him, because despite his disastrous movie debut -- he played a side-villain
in Dev Anand's Swami Dada, his second film, Subhash Ghai's Hero, was a smash hit and made him a star overnight.

Then came a string of films pairing him with rising superstar Anil Kapoor,
and the Shroff-Kapoor duo was phenomenally successful through the 1980s.

Shroff kept at it since, and continues to surprise with
the occasionally powerful performance.