But I believe he's on the brink of a resurrection. Yes, he did take many wrong career decisions in the name of friendship. Jackie’s wife Ayesha seconds the emotion. "Jackie is still tops, if you go by the amount of goodwill he has earned.
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While Jackie's colleagues like Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt have production houses to provide ideal acting opportunities (Sanjay Dutt has Sanjay Gupta doing Kaante and Zinda and Vinod Chopra giving him the Munnabhai series) Jackie has to make do with whatever comes his way. "Nothing, absolutely nothing has gone wrong with Jackie's career… The only problem is that Jackie isn't Anil Kapoor. Nair who has worked with Jackie in films ranging from Falak and Angaar to Grahan and One 2 Ka 4 defends Jackie stoutly. The one director who has stood by Jackie and cast him repeatedly in the lead is Shashilal Nair. The worst offender was Anil Kapoor, supposedly Jackie's best friend in the industry and his ally through numerous paeans to partnership, like Parinda, Andar Bahar and Karma, Jackie's presence was used to prop up innumerable Anil Kapoor starrers including the colossal flop Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja. Consequently Jackie got deeper and deeper into the morass of marginalism. Directors like Subhash Ghai, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Ketan Mehta with whom Jackie played the lead either moved on to bigger actors or cast him in supporting roles. There are other actors who claim to be generous. He has always given away his last roti to the one who has asked for it without caring about his next meal. Says a female co-star, "That's the tragedy of Jaggu Dada's career as an actor and a human being. And in Ghai's Karma and Khalnayak, Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt took centrestage.
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In Saudagar he was barely on screen for ten minutes. The ultimate blow: Jackie Shroff in Bhoot Unkle (2006)Īfter Hero Ghai constantly cast Jackie in second leads.
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After a couple of films with Shatrughan Sinha, Ghai launched himself as a star director with Jaikishan Shroff in the lead in Hero …a launch reminiscent in its magnitude and impact to Rajesh Khanna's Aradhana. In no time at all Ghai abandoned dreams of stardom and became a filmmaker. Rajesh Khanna started as a fringe leading man in Aurat and Aakhri Khat and quickly came to Aradhana where Khanna's friend was played by Subhash Ghai. Both rose to the top with rapidfire rhythm. Today seeing him as a pale, decadent shadow of what he used to be in his heydays you wonder if Jackie shares more than a passing affinity with Rajesh Khanna. (Jackie seconded that motion by happily adapting some of Dev Anand's mannerisms in his acting style.) Today Rituparno Ghosh declares he cast Jackie as the decadent zamindar in Antar Mahal because he suited the role! And to think that at one point women found him the most debonair leading man since Dev Anand. Having said that, there are number of other interesting projects starring him that should make him hot in the market once again over next 6 months.Anyone who has seen Jackie Shroff do the recent unbecoming roles in sub-standard productions like Naksha, Mera Dil Leke Dekho and Bhoot Unkle would wonder… whatever happened to him? Where in his journey from Hero to villain (in Naksha ) did this once-debonair actor lose his way? We hope that for dada's sake, the two films do get some eyeballs. Worse, even Jaggu dada's character in the film is not known, though the promotional stills feature him quite prominently. The other film is 'Mera Dil Leke Dekho', a Shatrughan Sinha home production, which surprisingly is coming with meager publicity with 'junta' at large clueless about the film's plot.
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The film was all set for release a few months back but due to certain production hassles, it is now finally hitting the marquee this Friday. In 'Bhoot Unkle', he plays the title role of a friendly 'ghost' who is extra cozy with the kids and is lovingly called as 'Bhoot Unkle'. That's because come October 6th and he would be enjoying a double bill with 2 of his flicks coming together. His 'Naksha' may have unfortunately tumbled at the box office a few weeks back but Jaggu dada doesn't really have any time in hands to introspect.