Jackie stars in Runway

Jackie Shroff is quite excited about working in Tanuja Chandra’s RUNWAY, not so much for the role, as the experience of working with the director. “I am not so well-informed about the role yet, though Tanuja roughly told me the story line. I lost out on four opportunities of working with her earlier, when she approached me and my dates were committed to other projects but now it just seems the right time,” Jackie reveals.

As for Tanuja Chandra, she is clearly in awe of Jackie’s ability to enact characters with a lot of pathos. “He has this strong penchant for roles which are tragedy-driven with a lot of pathos. I specifically wanted him for this particular role,” she says.

In the film, Jackie plays the role of a school crafts teacher who is a silent admirer of the protagonist, Resham. The emotionally intense film is based on the true story of a woman called Resham, staying on the Gujarat border, who braved the 1977 war.