Veteran actor Jackie Shroff in a recent interview spoke about how films over the course of time have experimented with him. He further asserted that he has never refuted any film, and thus haven’t differentiate between lead and small roles in films. He quoted the example of Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai starrer-Devdas in which he recalled his role as Chunnilal to be ‘fantastic.’
Jackie Shroff has been predominant in the film for more than four decades now. He was featured in 13 languages across different languages- Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Odia, Gujarati and English.
Talking to Filmfare about his roles in films, he said, “I really have no idea. The industry has experimented with me a lot because filmmakers know that I don’t say no to roles. I never thought of differentiating between lead roles and smaller roles. For example, in Devdas, the titular role is played by Shah Rukh Khan. But I had a fantastic role in it as Chunnilal. In Mission Kashmir, Sanjay Dutt and Hrithik Roshan were both heroes and I was the bad guy with only seven scenes.”
Jackie last appeared in Phone Bhoot and Life’s Good. He was also seen in a cameo role in Mili starring Jhanvi Kapoor. He will be seen in Baap with Mithun Chakraborty, Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dutt.
