Jackie Shroff is an Indian actor who made his debut with the film Swami Dada (1982) and went on to play the lead role in the film Hero by Subhash Ghai which was a huge hit and made him a star overnight. He was often paired with another leading actor, Anil Kapoor, during the 1980s in films such as Karma (1986), Ram Lakhan (1989) and Parinda (1989) which were all huge box-office successes. He won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in Parinda in 1990. Some of his famous leading roles came in Angaar (1992) where he plays a youth, frustrated with crime and corruption, who takes on a violent campaign against the system; and Gardish (1993) where he portrays a common man taking on the criminal elements in society.
