Jackie Shroff says he didn’t distinguish between leading and supporting roles

• Jackie asserted that he has never turned down a film.
• He doesn’t distinguish between leading and supporting roles.
• Jackie Shroff has been working in movies for more than 40 years.

Recently, Jackie Shroff discussed how supportive experimental filmmakers have been of him because he has never turned down pictures. He claimed it didn’t worry him that he wasn’t a hero.

In a recent interview, veteran actor Jackie Shroff discussed how movies eventually experimented with him. Jackie asserted that he has never turned down a film and added that he doesn’t distinguish between leading and supporting roles in movies. He used the Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai film Devdas as an example and said his performance as Chunnilal was ‘fantastic.’

Jackie Shroff has been working in movies for more than 40 years. Approximately 220 films in 13 languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Odia, Gujarati, and English, are to his credit. Jackie received appreciation for his portrayal of Shah Rukh’s pal Chunnilal in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, despite receiving little screen time.

Jackie was recently questioned by Filmfare about the kinds of roles he is hoping to land in the near future. Jackie 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.”

During the conversation, he added,”So I’ve been experimenting all the time. It never bothered me that if I don’t sing a song I’m not a hero anymore. I feel like if I’m a part of a film that’s more important. Like the chair you’re sitting on, if you cut one leg the whole thing falls. So you have to be that one leg. That’s the important part. The value that you add is important,”

Jackie was last seen in Phone Bhoot and Life’s Good. He was last seen in Janhvi Kapoor’s last outing, Mili where he appeared in a cameo role. The actor will be next seen in the upcoming film, Baap which marks his reunion with Mithun Chakraborty, Sunny Deol and Sanjay Dutt.

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