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New Delhi. Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff aka Jackie Shroff has been in the industry for four decades and in all these years, he has not missed any opportunity to entertain his audience.Jaggu Dada, who has worked in more than 250 films in 13 different languages, did not have an easy film journey at all. Not only in the initial phase of his career, Jackie Shroff has suffered a lot in his personal life as well.Jackie Shroff, who grew up in Mumbai's Teen Batti area, has studied only till 11th class. He has also worked in different fields. In the year 1982, Jackie Shroff worked in the film 'Swami Dada', in which the lead actor was Dev Anand.

Jackie Shroff wanted to play the second lead in this film, but his dream was not fulfilled. He shared an incident related to this film and told how bees were released on him during the shooting of a scene. Today in Throw-Back Thursday, we are telling you about that incident-

Why were bees released on Jackie Shroff

Jackie Shroff was a big fan of Dev Anand. He even agreed to play a small role in the film for him. In an interview given to Mumbai Mirror in 2011, Jackie Shroff himself told that when he was shooting for Swami Dada, bees were actually released on him and Shakti Kapoor.

This was Jackie Shroff's character in 'Swami Dada'

Jackie Shroff shared another interesting story in this interview and told that he wanted to play the second lead in Dev Anand's film 'Swami Dada', but this role was given to Mithun Chakraborty instead of him, because he was a big star at that time.

However, Dev Anand did not let him down at all and offered him a role in the film. Talking about his role, Jackie Shroff said, "Dev sahab told me that there is another role for me. The role was that I have to stand silently behind Shakti Kapoor. Now how can anyone refuse Dev sahab, I could play any kind of role on his saying".


 

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