Jackie Shroff: Some of the best performances by the veteran actor

Jackie Shroff is a successful and popular actor who has been working in the Indian film industry for over three decades. He has featured in over 200 movies since his debut in the 1982 film Swami Dada and is also about to feature in several upcoming films. Here are some of the best performances given by Jackie Shroff throughout his career that showcase his vast acting skills. 

Ram Lakhan

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Ram Lakhan was a 1989 action-crime drama that starred Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor. In the movie, the two leads acted as brothers who were also cops. Jackie played the role of Ram Pratap Singh while Anil Kapoor played his younger brother Lakhan Pratap Singh. The movie not only showed Jackie Shroff's acting talent but also proved him as a capable action star in Bollywood. The movie was directed by Subhash Ghai and was produced by Ashok Ghai. 

Parinda

Parinda is another highly loved 1989 crime drama that starred Jackie Shroff in the leading role. Jackie played the primary role of the hero Kishan and the film also starred Nana Patekar in the role of the villain, Anna the gangster. The story tells the tale of two brothers, Kishan and Karan, who are flung into a series of events that puts them in the spotlight of the main antagonist Anna. The film was directed and produced by acclaimed filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra. 

Gardish

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Gardish is a 1993 action drama film that starred Jackie Shroff in the leading role of Shiva Sathe. The movie is a story about a man who wanted to be a police officer but a series of unfortunate events and bad decisions led him to become a criminal-vigilante who is wanted by the law. The film was directed by Priyadarshan and produced by R. Mohan and is a Hindi remake of the 1989  Malayalam movie Kireedam.

Hero

The 1983 film Hero was the movie that turned Jackie Shroff into a popular name in Bollywood as it was the first movie to star him in the lead role. The film was a romantic action that was directed and produced by Subhash Ghai. Jackie Shroff played the role of a criminal named Jackie Dada who, moved by true love, surrendered himself to the police. The movie was remade in Telugu in 1986 and was called Vikram. It was also remade recently in 2015 and starred Sooraj Pancholi in the lead role.

Here are four of the best performances given by Jackie Shroff. The veteran actor is also set to star in multiple upcoming movies. He most recently featured in the Tamil sports action movie Bigil, that was released on October 25, 2019. 

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