Jackie Shroff & Gulshan Grover Movies Together List — 22 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s belonged to Paisa Yeh Paisa; the 2010s to Chehere: A Modern Day Classic. Jackie Shroff acted in every film; Gulshan Grover acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Their first film together, Mera Jawab (1985), almost didn't happen. The director, B. R. Ishara, cast Jackie as the lead but needed a menacing villain. He spotted Gulshan at a party and offered him the role on the spot — Gulshan said yes without even reading the script.
• In Ram Lakhan (1989), Jackie played the righteous cop and Gulshan played the sleazy villain. Subhash Ghai told them to never rehearse together — he wanted Jackie's raw energy to clash with Gulshan's calculated sneer. The result? The scene where Gulshan slaps Jackie's mother became the film's most talked-about moment.
• Despite playing enemies on screen, Jackie and Gulshan were close friends off it. On the sets of Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990), they would share a joint before every scene — Jackie said it helped them 'get into the zone' for their comic rivalry.
• Their pairing in Police Officer (1992) was so forgettable that it directly inspired a parody in the 2000s comedy film 'Hera Pheri' — the scene where Akshay Kumar's character mocks a 'police officer' film starring Jackie and Gulshan. Nobody remembers the original, but everyone remembers the joke.
• Gulshan Grover once said in an interview: 'Jackie and I never had to act. He would just look at me with those eyes, and I would become the villain. It was like a switch.'
• In Izzat (1991), Jackie's character was a soft-hearted lover, while Gulshan played a ruthless gangster. The director, S. A. Chandrasekhar, told Gulshan to improvise his threats — he ended up ad-libbing a line about 'cutting Jackie's tongue' that made Jackie genuinely flinch on camera. That take made the final cut.