

They migrated to Delhi, and finally to Mumbai. In the early 1900s, his grandmother escaped to Ladakh along with her seven daughters when there was a coup in Kazakhstan. His father, Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff, was a Gujarati and his mother was a Turkish from Kazakhstan. Shroff was born as Jai Kishan Kakubhai Shroff in Mumbai, India.

He has also appeared in several successful short films. He has won four Filmfare Awards among other accolades.

He has been in the Hindi cinema (Bollywood) industry for almost four decades and as of 2017 has appeared in more than 220 films in thirteen languages (Hindi, Konkani, Kannada, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, and English language). Jai Kishan Kakubhai "Jackie" Shroff (born 1 February 1957) is an Indian actor.
