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Jackie Chan spotted on Kung Fu Yoga set at Atlantis, The Palm
Hot on the trail of Jackie Chan at Dubai Studio City

Jackie Chan�s latest film Kung Fu Yoga to shoot in Dubai
April 7, 1954 Born in Hong Kong

1961 Parents leave him at Hong Kong stage school

1962 Appears in first film

1976 Stars in New Fists of Fury

1982 Marries Lin Feng-jiao

1995 Plays the lead in his Hollywood breakthrough Rumble in the Bronx

1998 Makes Rush Hour with Chris Tucker; releases autobiography, I Am Jackie Chan.

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The journey taken by Jackie Chan, now 61, from childhood poverty in Hong Kong to Dubai, where he is filming his 127th movie, is a script-worthy story of a small nobody who fought his way out of obscurity to become the biggest somebody in the world of martial-arts movies.

He was born Chan Kong-sang in 1954 in the then-British colony of Hong Kong, to parents Charles, a cook, and Lee-Lee Chan, a housekeeper.

His parents were poor, and by Chan�s own account, came close to offering to put him up for adoption by the doctor who delivered him. In the end, they borrowed the money to pay the bill.

Chan would have the benefit of his parents� presence only until he was 7, when his father left to work in Australia, and the couple left their son behind. Much later, he would discover his mother had been an opium smuggler, while his father had also been a prominent gangland figure.

�I was shocked,� Chan said in 2014. �I thought he was just a cook.�

Abandonment proved to be a useful lesson in self-reliance. During the next decade, Chan would see his parents only rarely, but they had left him with two life-changing gifts.

The first was kung fu. Believing mastery of oriental fighting skills would teach his son �patience, strength and courage�, while he was still around, Charles Chan woke his young son early each morning to practise.

The second was a place at the China Drama Academy, which became Jackie�s home for 10 years from the age of 7.

The academy prepared boys for the Peking Opera, but in addition to singing and acting also taught martial arts and acrobatics. It was a tough life. Students �were severely disciplined and were beaten if they disobeyed or made mistakes,� recalls Chan�s official biography.

In an interview on British tele�vision in 2010, Chan revealed the routine he endured: up at 5am every morning for a long run while carrying two cups of water, which couldn�t be spilt on pain of a beating. Next, one hour of handstands, followed by intensive karate training.

�Was that fun?� he was asked.

�No,� he replied, with some feeling, �it was horrible.�

Chan had been at the school for just one year when, in 1962, he made his on-screen debut at the age of 8 in the Chinese film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar.

It was a prophetic role as Yuen Lau, a child who trains hard to break out of an ordinary existence to become a kung-fu hero.

At first, it seemed Chan would remain only a foot soldier in the army of stuntmen and extras that fed the Hong Kong film industry. Between 1963 and 1976, he churned out dozens of largely uncredited roles in largely forgettable films.

After 1973, a year in which he worked on 14 films, it looked like he had hit his high-water mark. The film industry was in decline, and jobs were suddenly so scarce that Chan joined his parents in Australia.

�I was so poor,� he recalled last year. �I was doing dangerous stunts for less than �1 [Dh6] a day.�

In Australia, working on building sites, he earned the nickname Jackie, bestowed by an Australian labourer who struggled to pronounce his real name, Kong-sang, which translates as �Born in Hong Kong�.

Chan hated the work and was �very unhappy in Australia�, but rescue was at hand. It was 1976, and Willie Chan, who had been impressed by Jackie�s stunt work, was recruiting talent for a movie being made by the Hong Kong director Lo Wei.

Lo had discovered the martial-�arts sensation Bruce Lee, launching him onto the world stage in the 1972 film Fist of Fury. Lee died in 1973, at the age of 32, and now Lo was looking for someone to star in the �Bruceploitation� film New Fist of Fury.

Too long. Btw, has he died again?

No,but just know more about it

Hustle really does pay.

Kudos Jackie chan .

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