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When Jackie Shroff's elder brother drowned in front of him, veteran actor recalls the painful moment

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: February 28, 2023 16:15 IST

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Jackie Shroff revealed that he has a lot of belief in astrology and the reason is his brother’s death. It was this unfortunate incident that made his belief in astrology strong. Jackie opened up about how his brother passed away and how an astrologer had predicted that it is not a good day for him.
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Jackie Shroff revealed that his brother drowned as he had ventured into the sea to save someone. However, since he didn't know how to swim, he died.
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'My brother died when I was 10. He was 17. He tried to save somebody. He drowned. That’s the way life is, we’ve all seen this. Dil mein reh jaate hain, photo reh jaate hain,' Jackie revealed in his interview to actress Twinkle Khanna.
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He further said, 'Bhai ko bola tha, ‘aaj kharab din hai, mat jaana bahar’ He used to work at Century Mills. He was a mill hand. He said ‘Don’t go to your mill today.’ And he didn’t go. But he went down to save somebody in the sea, and drowned, without knowing how to swim.'
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Jackie had also revealed that an astrologer had told them that it was a ‘bad day’ for his brother and that he shouldn’t go out. The astrologer also predicted that he would become an actor.
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Shroff was born as Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff in Bombay (present Mumbai), India. His father, Kakubhai Haribhai Shroff, was Gujarati, while his mother was a Turkmen who fled from Kazakhstan (then the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic under the Russian Soviet Union) during a coup.
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As a youngster, he modelled in a few advertisements including Savage perfumes. It was one of his classmates in school who gave Shroff his name 'Jackie' and then filmmaker Subhash Ghai stuck to this name when he launched him in the film Hero.
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