Jackie Shroff & Sonu Sood Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Jackie Shroff acted in every film; Sonu Sood acted in all of them.

Partnership facts

• Sonu Sood and Jackie Shroff first shared screen space in Shakti (2011) because the director wanted a towering, menacing villain to match Jackie's raw energy. Sonu was cast as the antagonist opposite Jackie's hero — and their face-off in the climax became the film's most talked-about scene.
• In Happy New Year (2014), Jackie played a retired safecracker and Sonu played a tech geek. Jackie's gruff, instinctive style pushed Sonu to dial up his comic timing — Sonu later admitted he learned to loosen up on set just by watching Jackie improvise his lines.
• During the shoot of Paltan (2018), Jackie and Sonu shared a room in Ladakh for two weeks. Sonu cooked basic meals because Jackie refused to eat mess food — they bonded over old Bollywood songs and Jackie's stories about working with Dev Anand.
• Sonu Sood once said about Jackie: 'He doesn't act — he just becomes the character. I used to stand behind the monitor just to watch him breathe life into a scene.' He said this in a 2018 interview with Filmfare.
• Their pairing in Shakti (2011) directly led to Sonu being cast as the main villain in the 2012 Tamil film 'Mugamoodi' — the director saw the raw physicality of their face-off and wanted that same intensity for his superhero film.