Mumbai: Here’s a two-part question — what is common between Tumsa Nahi Dekha, Murder, Murder 2, Zeher, Gangster, Jannat, The Dirty Picture, Tum Mile, Raaz 3?
If you know the first part, you will almost surely get the second one as well.
They are all films featuring Emraan Hashmi. And yes, in all of them there were scenes where Emraan was seen kissing his heroines.
Hashmi did say that he had brought the tag of ‘serial kisser’ on himself, from which he could not get out.
Now, Hashmi has said in another interview that he got sick of being the guy who was kissing all his heroines.
“For the first 10 years of my career, I was doing these films and I, unfortunately, have done it to myself. This tag was given to me by myself as a joke, and then it blew up… the media started talking about it, and that superseded everything. And you had a country that was obsessive about this; sexuality and portraying it on screen. Back then, when I started in 2003, it was this ‘aha’ moment to see a guy who’s kissing all his heroines. That became a talking point,” Hashmi recalled.
But with the passage of time, he didn’t like the idea.
“I realised I was getting sick of it… Because those films were giving me a very ‘been there done that’ feeling. I reached a saturation point, even though those films were doing very well at the box office,” Hashmi said, adding that the actor in him wanted to do more.
“I am maturing as an actor, but I am forced to choose these scripts because this is what’s working, and in our industry, we want Xerox copies of everything. But I’m not getting any creative fulfilment,” remarked Hashmi who will next be seen in Chehre which is set for theatrical release on August 27. It’s a thriller directed by Rumi Jafry and featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Krystle D’Souza and Rhea Chakraborty.
