Tiger Shroff Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More!

Tiger Shroff Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography & More!

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tiger Shroff

• Does Tiger Shroff smoke?: No

• Does Tiger Shroff drink alcohol?: No

• He comes from a well-renowned film industry background as his father, Jackie Shroff, is a famous actor and mother Ayesha Dut, a producer.

• Tiger holds multiple ethnicities; as he is a mixture of Turkish, Bengali, Gujarati, and Belgian descent, which is Bengali and Belgian from his mother’s side, and Gujarati and Turkish from his father’s side.

• Since the age of four, he has been a trained martial artist.

• He was a sports freak and was more into sports than acting at the start of his career.

• His real name was Jai Hemant Shroff, but Jackie named him Tiger as he used to bite like a tiger when he was small.

• Tiger has helped Aamir Khan in his workout routine to build physique for Aamir’s film- Dhoom 3. @The relations between the two got so stronger that Aamir was very much keen to produce Tiger’s debut, but it was later not possible.

• In 2009, Tiger was offered the lead role in the remake of the TV show “Fauji”, but he declined it as he was not in favour of doing television shows first and then ending up in films.

• Tiger is also a fifth-degree black belt holder in Taekwondo.

• In 2014, he made a headstart to his career with the film- Heropanti, which was a commercial success apart from negative reviews.

• He worked very hard for his debut film, as he spent 3 years to get trained for this film. Moreover, he performed all the stunts by himself in the movie.
  

  Tiger Shroff Training For His Debut Film

• He was critically acclaimed by the audience and viewers for his extraordinary dancing skills and strenuous stunts performed in the movie.

• He is very much secretive about his personal life and holds a shy and introvert personality.

• In an interview, he revealed that he considered Bruce Lee and Michael Jackson as his role models.

• His movie Baaghi in 2016, alongside Shraddha Kapoor, was a box office hit and grossed over ₹1 billion worldwide.

• Tiger and Shraddha are not only co-stars but are also best friends and have been classmates too.
  

  Tiger Shroff With Shraddha Kapoor

• The same year, he was starred in Remo D’Souza‘s superhero film- Flying Jatt for which he had to learn to speak Punjabi.
  

  Tiger Shroffs in the film Flying Jatt

• In a Rapid Fire with Bollywood Hungama, he revealed a dream character he always wanted to play i.e. Spider-Man.

• In 2017, he played the role of Munna Roy, a dancer inspired by Michael Jackson, and to get up to the perfection level as a dancer, he was trained by Michael’s choreographer in Los Angeles.

• It was observed that throughout the film, Tiger had tied a red tie around his hand, which was a tribute to Michael Jackson.
  

  Tiger Shroff Wearing Red Ribbon

• In 2018, he rocked the cinemas with the sequel of Baaghi- Baaghi 2, along with Disha Patani. Some of the stunt scenes were actually performed by Tiger, not by a body double.
  

  Tiger Shroff in Baaghi 2

• He was also featured in Punit Malhotra’s Student Of The Year 2, which was a sequel to the 2012 film, Student of the Year.
  

• Tiger is a fan of WWE wrestling and a big gym freak.

• He also became the Brand Ambassador and co-owner of Bengaluru Tigers.

• He is an ardent devotee of Lord Shiva, and he attributed all his talent and passion to none other than Lord Shiva. He also observes fast on Mondays. While talking about Lord Shiva, he says-As the Lord of destruction and creator of the tandav, He inspires me to leave nothing and give everything. And that mentality is what inspires me when I do an action sequence or perform on stage. When He dances, he burns everything around him. When I do an action sequence or dance, I do the same with energy, passion, and all my focus. Those are His traits that I try to imbibe. And so, I see him as the original action star.”
  

  Tiger Shroff Seeking Blessings of Lord Shiva