Jackie Shroff made his debut in Subhash Ghai’s ‘Hero’ in 1983 reverse Meenakshi Sheshadri. However do you know he was really was seen first on display in a small function in ‘Swami Dada’. The actor was purported to be seen in a full fledged function within the movie however was later changed by Mithun Chakraborty. He then, ended up in a small function within the movie. However he was nonetheless elated to be part of it.Jackie recalled throughout a chat with Vickey Lalwani, “Dev sahab referred to as me at his workplace, ke tum aao. Then he instructed me Mithun Chakraborty is getting the function, he is a dancer. Tumhare liye ek aur function hai. Shakti Kapoor ke gang mein. I mentioned ‘wow’, Atleast I am there within the movie. Dev Sahab ka bada fan hu. Toh aisa mauka kisko milta hai. Chaali ke andar apun soch sakte hai kya? Ke Dev Sahab bolenge I am providing you with a job. I am like ‘Kuch bhi de’. Ek peda bhi de. Ek patthar bhi haath mein dete toh sona hota.” The actor was requested about being in comparison with Dev Anand in his first movie and the actor mentioned he was very joyful about it. He added, “Joh bhi Dev Sahab ne diya, prashad samajh ke le liya. Woh aashirwaad hello tha. Phir Subhash Ghai ne function de diya, us Dev ke aashirwad se.”Earlier, on Kunickaa Sadanand’s podcast, Shroff had mentioned, “When Dev Sahab instructed me to do the function in Shakti Kapoor’s gang and villain’s den mein Shakti Kapoor ka chamcha ban gaya important (I turned Shakti Kapoor’s henchman within the villain’s den). My demotion occurred in 15 days, from the second result in the third villain. I went again house and instructed my mom I obtained a villain’s function (laughs).”Jackie was residing in a chawl and met Dev Anand by way of his son Suniel who he did appearing class with throughout his modelling days. That is how he obtained into this small function in his movie ‘Swami Dada’.