Jackie Shroff celebrates his 68th birthday on February 1. The actor has appeared in over 250 films in a career spanning across four decades and has won exceptional performances in blockbuster films like Hero, Border, Tridev, Khalnayak, Rangeela, and Mission Kashmir among others. However, Jackie has won the coveted Filmfare Award for Best Actor only once in his career for Parinda.
Directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the 1989 crime drama Parinda featured a strong ensemble of actors including Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Nana Patekar, Anupam Kher, Suresh Oberoi, and Tom Alter. The film became a blockbuster upon its release and is still regarded as a cult classic in Hindi cinema. Jackie and Anil played two brothers Kishan Choudhary and Karan Choudhary, who are caught on two different sides of a gang war.
For one particular scene in the film, Jackie had to slap Anil but the latter wasn't convinced and asked for multiple retakes. Thus, Jackie ended up slapping Anil 17 times for that sequence. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film's release, the makers Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films released a special video in 2019, in which Anurag Kashyap was seen discussing the film with Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Jackie Shroff, and Anil Kapoor.
In that conversation, Jackie recalled that scene in which he slapped Anil 17 times and said, "He wanted to express that his elder brother had slapped him. The first shot was okayed by the director and he got the right expression as well. .