Jackie Shroff on how he went from being called ‘Jaikishan’ to ‘Jackie’: ‘I had a classmate…’

He told Bollywood Hungama in Hindi, “My mother used to call me Jaggu, my friends used to call me Jaggu dad, my father used to call me Jaikishan… Some used to call me Jai, others used to call me Kishan. I have many names, you can call me whatever you want, just say it with love.”

Asked how he came to be known as Jackie, he said, “I had a classmate in school, who came from Hong Kong or Dubai. He felt that Jaikishan was a long name, so he told me that we should have some fun with it. He started calling me Jai-ki, and from there, it evolved to Jackie. My name has kept changing, but I’m still the same.”

The actor was last seen in the film Phone Bhoot, and will next be seen in the film Life’s Good.