
Emraan Hashmi’s six years in Bollywood Film Industry have earned him the title of a serial kisser and his film ‘Raaz – The Mystery Continues’ has taken a good start all over and is all set to be at the least a hit at the box office.
Emraan Hashmi states, “I don’t find myself a special celebrity. I am a simple and common man with basic needs. I always celebrate my success and believe in God with purity of heart. I am particularly an open book which a human being can easily read. People knows about me and there is nothing hidden in me from the world.”
Talking about the film ‘Raaz- The Mystery Continues’, Emraan Hashmi stated, “This movie is fantastic and working in this film was a great challenge for me. I had a dream to work in a horror movie and ‘Raaz- The Mystery Continues’ has completed it.The script and character of the film compelled me to do this film. This movie will be a benchmark for the other horror films.”
Emraan Hashmi is all set to open up his ‘Raaz’ to the audience this November. We are talking about Emraan’s upcoming venture ‘Raaz 2′ directed by Mohit Suri. The star cast was seen promoting this intriguing thriller recently. The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut and Shekhar Suman’s son Adhyayan Suman. Incidentally, Kangna Ranaut plays a fashion model in ‘Raaz– The Mystery Continues’ after ‘Fashion’. While Vikram Bhatt had directed the original, Mohit Suri, who directed ‘Zeher’, ‘Kalyug’ and ‘Woh Lamhe’ and has completed ‘Awarapan’ for the Bhatts, will direct ‘Raaz 2′. Adhyayan debuted through ‘Haal-e-Dil’, which couldn’t gain much acceptance. This young lad considers ‘Raaz 2′ as his debut movie. ‘Raaz-The Mystery Continues’ deals with issues of the “evil within” the human psyche and how it manifests itself. It is based on the myths and superstitions that are still widely existent in the contemporary Indian society.
The film attempts to challenge one’s beliefs about paranormal phenomena. It is about anticipation of fear and the fright residing within one’s self. Sounds interesting!
Emraan Hashmi, who stormed into B-town lip-first, has changed for two upcoming movies and has grabbed the painter’s brush. In his yet to be released thriller ‘Raaz – The Mystery Returns’, he plays a clairvoyant artist. In his next venture, Kunal Deshmukh’s untitled thriller (again!), he plays a brush-wielding visionary all over again. Set in flood-hit Mumbai of 2005, the film has a more serious take on humanity than his previous sensual flicks.With a kissing-streak in his career, this new brush-toting penchant is hinting at an image makeover from the hip to the solemn – in fact, from the physically inclined to the intellectually inclined. Earlier Emraan, was reported to have declared he had had enough of paints and brushes after the shooting of ‘Raaz…’ The new role came as a surprise but Emraan welcomed the good script with alacrity.The painting role has stuck to him with such vengeance now that he has started dabbling in colours in his spare time, too.“Emraan has now become more serious about art and whenever he has time off from shoots, he practises his brush strokes,” a close friend of the actor remarked.
Emraan Hashmi has learnt a lot of painting in the last few days. If you are thinking if he is following on the footsteps of Salman Khan, you are not. The actor took the painting lessons for his next release Raaz – The Mystery Continues. Emraan plays a painter who can see what evil will befall on someone through his sudden visions and then he draws those incidents, exactly how he sees it, on canvas. “Painting is a very difficult thing to do. It might look that you just need to hold the brush and do something with colours but it’s very difficult. My role is that of a painter and I wanted to do that perfectly. I wanted to learn how to hold the brush properly, how to do those strokes etc. I have certainly not become a painter but yes, I have learnt the basics,” he says.There are very few Bollywood horror films which have done well in the box office. We quizzed Emraan on why he took the risk of treading this genre when he was tasting success with romance or dramas?
“I have always done different films. So when I read the script of Raaz – The Mystery Continues, I wanted to challenge myself and see whether I can be successful in this genre, too,” he says.Emraan has also stuck to his promise of not kissing on screen in Raaz – The Mystery Continues. He says, “I was getting typecast by doing the same thing. I realised that I had to do something different. Thankfully, people have accepted this new me,” Emraan says.We also asked him about co-star Kangana Ranaut who is known to be moody.
“These are just stories about her. She is a very sweet person and everyone goes through mood swings but that doesn’t mean that a person is bad. We gelled very well,” he signs off.
The serial kisser is back. He is not the one who can Murder you with your looks but his panache makes girls scream Ashique Banaya Apne. Sreya Basu catches up with the Bollywood Gangster…oopps, rockster. Emraan Hashmi on the latest in his life and career.
Let’s start with your latest release Jannat.
Jannat is a love story with the background of cricket and the dark alleys of the game. The subject is contemporary where heaven is all about money, luxury and crime.
Are you comfortable playing a hero with negative attributes?
Generally in Hindi films we take it for granted that a hero should be all white a character while it’s the villain who will portray a black character.
In this film I play a grey character that people can relate to. After all none of us are all white or black, but grey. The first half of the film portrays Arjun (my character in Jannat), a reckless youth obsessed with moneymaking and in the process gets into cricket betting and match fixing racket.
But in the later half audience will know about the circumstances that led him to this racket and they will feel sorry for him.
You play a match fixer in the film. How have you prepared yourself for your character?
I met a few cricket bookies in Mumbai to get a better understanding of their life and life style. Besides I read all the cricket betting controversies that took place in the last 30 years.
Is Jannat deliberately released during the IPL?
It was not deliberate but it’s good that the film is released during the IPL. Cricket betting is something that you can never put on check.