Jackie Shroff & Sanjay Dutt Movies Together List — 10 Films

The shape of the work

The 1990s belonged to Khalnayak; the 2020s to Housefull 5. Jackie Shroff acted in every film; Sanjay Dutt acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• They first shared screen space in 'Jeene Do' (1990), but the film that actually made them a pair was 'Khalnayak' (1993). Subhash Ghai cast them as the two sides of the same coin — the cop and the criminal — and the audience couldn't stop talking about their face-off scenes.
• In 'Mission Kashmir' (2000), Sanjay Dutt played the brooding, silent cop while Jackie Shroff played the loud, emotional father. They deliberately swapped their usual energy — Jackie held back, Sanjay let loose — and it made their confrontation scenes crackle.
• Their pairing in 'Khalnayak' (1993) directly inspired the cop-vs-gangster template that defined 90s Bollywood. Without their dynamic, you probably don't get the 'Vaastav' or 'Satya' style of gritty buddy-cop rivalries.
• Jackie Shroff was one of the few people who visited Sanjay Dutt regularly during his prison stints in the 2000s. They never talked about work — just sat together, smoked, and watched old films. Jackie later said, 'I didn't go as an actor. I went as a brother.'
• In 'Eklavya: The Royal Guard' (2007), they played father and son for the first time. Sanjay later admitted that Jackie's silent, dignified performance made him cry on set — he had to walk away and compose himself before their next take.