Actress Meenakshi Seshadri said that many were apprehensive after she and actor Jackie Shroff were cast together in "Hero" (1983) but soon, these people had to "eat their words".  

Meenakshi was in conversation on Lehren, where she recalled that Jackie was introduced by actor-filmmaker Dev Anand through “Swami Dada” in 1982 and she stepped into Bollywood with “Painter Babu” in 1983, which was directed by Manoj Kumar.