Jackie Shroff & Anupam Kher Movies Together List — 24 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s belonged to Karma; the 2020s to Tanvi the Great. Jackie Shroff acted in every film; Anupam Kher acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Aagman (1982), was a small-budget film that barely anyone remembers. But it was on that set that Anupam Kher, then a struggling newcomer, first met Jackie Shroff — and Jackie, already a rising star, quietly helped Anupam rehearse his lines before every take.
• In Parinda (1989), Jackie played the volatile, loyal brother while Anupam played the cold, calculating villain. The tension between them wasn't just scripted — Jackie would deliberately stay in character between takes, refusing to even look at Anupam, which made their confrontation scenes crackle with real hostility.
• Anupam Kher has said that Jackie Shroff was the first co-star who ever invited him home for dinner after a shoot. That meal at Jackie's place in the late '80s turned into a lifelong friendship — they still call each other 'bhai' off-screen.
• Anupam Kher once said in an interview: 'Jackie and I never had a single fight on set. Not one. Even when we played enemies, we'd laugh between shots. He's the only actor I've done 15 films with and never once felt competitive.'
• Their 1989 blockbuster Ram Lakhan was the film that cemented the 'hero vs. villain' template for a whole generation of Bollywood masala movies. Jackie's loud, righteous hero and Anupam's slimy, scheming antagonist became the blueprint copied by dozens of films in the 1990s.
• In 1942: A Love Story (1994), Jackie played a freedom fighter and Anupam played a British loyalist. Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra revealed that Jackie kept improvising his lines to make his character more vulnerable, while Anupam would counter by making his villain more coldly logical — they pushed each other to find new layers in every scene.