Before we had Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor and Tiger Shroff showing off their dance moves, we had Bollywood's jumping jack, Jeetendra. Jeetendra is known as Jeetu ji in Bollywood. In his illustrious career spanning over 50 years, he gave us many blockbuster films. He made a special place for himself in Bollywood due to his brilliant dialogue delivery.

Jitendra was also called the jumping jack of Bollywood. When actors like Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor and Tiger Shroff had not even entered the cinema, we had Jitendra. No dancer of today can match his energy and charm.

Jeetendra was known for dancing

Jeetendra entered Bollywood as a junior artist and earned a name in the industry on the basis of his dance and style. He made people crazy with his dance style, dialogue delivery and charm. This ladder of success was not as easy for the actor as it seems. He struggled a lot and there came a time when he had to buy his own movie tickets to save his honor. Let's know this story.

Jeetendra was looking for work

Actually, at the time when Jitendra was looking for work in films, director Ravikant was also in a similar situation. Ravikant Nagaich was the most successful cameraman of that era and was trying his hand at direction. Ravikant had also prepared the script of a film. The name of the film was 'Farz'. But since Ravikant had no experience in direction, big actors refused to do his film. Jitendra was looking for an opportunity, so he said yes to the film. This was a spy thriller film in which Babita was seen with him.

I bought the ticket myself

The film was released and the makers and Jeetendra expected that the film would be a huge hit. However, this did not happen. The film flopped badly and did not earn much for 12 weeks. Jeetendra was afraid that the theatres might take his film off the screen. On the other hand, while he was trying to earn a name, if this message reached the market, it would have a bad impact on his image. The actor adopted a solution for this. Jeetendra decided that he would buy the tickets of the film himself, so that the market would know that the film is running.

The makers were surprised

Jitendra had to spend five thousand rupees from his own pocket to run the film. Something similar happened. The film 'Farz' which had a poor performance for 12 weeks started performing well from the 16th week. About one and a half crore rupees were spent in making the film, but the film surprised the makers by doing a business of more than 5 crores worldwide.