Deepika Padukone & Jackie Shroff Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 2010s belonged to Happy New Year; the 2020s to Singham Again. Deepika Padukone acted in every film; Jackie Shroff acted in all of them. Mostly Hindi, with 1 film in Tamil.

Partnership facts

• Deepika and Jackie first shared screen space in the Tamil film Kochadaiiyaan (2014), but they never shot a single scene together. Jackie voiced a character in the Hindi dub, while Deepika acted in the original Tamil motion-capture version. Their first actual face-to-face shoot happened later that same year in Happy New Year.
• In Happy New Year (2014), Jackie played a retired conman who mentors Deepika's character. On set, Jackie would deliberately flub his lines in the first take to make Deepika laugh and loosen up before the real take. She later said it became their unspoken warm-up ritual.
• Jackie Shroff personally recommended Deepika Padukone for a role in a 2016 project that never materialized. He called her director and said, 'She has the same fire I had at her age.' Deepika found out years later and sent him a handwritten thank-you note.
• Jackie Shroff on working with Deepika in King (2026): 'She doesn't act. She becomes. I had to up my game because she makes you feel like you're the only person in the room.'
• Their pairing in Happy New Year (2014) was the first time a mainstream Bollywood heist film featured a female lead who was the brains of the operation, not just the love interest. The film's success directly influenced the writing of female-led heist roles in later films like Badla (2019) and the Hindi remake of The Italian Job.
• King (2026) marks the first time Deepika and Jackie play father and daughter on screen. Jackie was cast after Deepika personally insisted, telling the director, 'He's the only one who can make me cry in a scene without saying a word.'