MY FAVOURITE HERO- EMRAAN HASHMI

Emraan Hasmi, born in 24^th March, 1979 has become my favourite actor. At the beginning of his career, I didn’t like him. I used to think what type of hero is he. Never had good impression of him. When I saw the song “Bheeye Hont,” of Murder, although, the song was catchy, I didn’t like him.

But when I watched his movie, “Awarapan,” I loved his acting and the movie. After watching this movie, I felt “Man, why didn’t I like him before and watched his movie before.” After “Awarapan,” I watched his movies “Murder” and “Gangster.” I simply loved these movies and started liking Emraan Hasmi.  Not only this, I wanted to know about him more.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Emraan Anwar Hashmi was born in 24 March, 1979. Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt are his uncles. Hashmi is the cousin of director Mohit Suri, actress Pooja Bhatt, actor Rahul Bhatt and actress Alia Bhatt. Hashmi studied at Sydenham, College, Mumbai and University of Mumbai.

Hashmi married Parveen Shahani in an Islamic wedding ceremony on December 2006 after a six and half year relationship. The couple have a son Ayaan Hashmi who wasborn on 3^rd February 2010. On January 15, 2014, Emraan’s four-year old son Ayaan was diagnosed with first-stage cancer.

His mother Maherrah Hashmi died on 11 March 2016, Emraan cancelled one day’s shoot when he got to know his mother’s demise. He did not want to delay the shoot of Azhar any further and also wanted to occupy his mind with work. So, he returned to the sets the soonest he could. In 2016, Hashmi launched the auto-biographical book called “Kiss of Life.”

                                                   

FILMOGRAPHY

After graduating from the University of Mumbai, he worked as an assistant director for the 2002 horror film Raaz before pursuing a career in acting. The following year, he made his acting debut with a leading role in the crime thriller Footpath, a moderate box-office success. By 2004, Hashmi had established him as one of the leading actor of Hindi cinema with roles in the successful Murder (2004), Zeher (2005) and Gangster (2006). However, he followed it with roles in the films that under-performed at the box office before starring in the acclaimed drama Awarapan (2007).

The year 2008 marked a turning point for Hashmi when he played conman in the crime drama Jannat. He subsequently gained recognition for portraying a range of unconventional characters in several successful films, including the horror Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009), the biographical drama The Dirty Picture (2011), the psychological thriller Murder 2 (2011), the romantic comedy Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji (2011), the crime thriller Jannat 2 (2012), and the supernatural thrillers Raaz 3 (2012) and Ek Thi Daayan (2013), all of which earned him critical appreciation. Hashmi's acclaimed performances in the underworld drama Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010) and the political thriller Shanghai (2012), garnered him two Best Supporting Actor nominations at Filmfare. After appearing in another series of box office flops, he starred as the titular character in the biogeographical sports drama Azhar and an evil spirit in the horror thriller Raaz Reboot (both 2016)–and received praise for the drama Hamari Adhuri Kahani (2015).

Title	Year	Role(s)	Director
Footpath	2003	Raghu Shrivastav	Vikram Bhatt
Murder	2004	Sunny	Anurag Basu
Tumsa Nahin Dekha	2004	Daksh Mittal	Anurag Basu
Zeher	2005	Siddharth Mehra	Mohit Suri
Aashiq Banaya Apne	2005	Vikram Mathur	Aditya Datt
Chocolate	2005	Deva	Vivek Agnihotri
Kalyug	2005	Ali Bhai	Mohit Suri
Jawani Diwani	2006	Mann Kapoor	Manish Sharma
Aksar	2006	Ricky Sharma	Anant Mahadevan
Gangster	2006	Akash	Anurag Basu
The Killer	2006	Nikhil Joshi	Hasnain Hyderabadwala Raksha Mistry
Dil Diya Hai	2006	Sahil Khanna	Aditya Datt
Good Boy Bad Boy	2007	Raju Malhotra	Ashwini Chaudhary
Awarapan	2007	Shivam	Mohit Suri
The Train	2007	Vishal Dixit	Hasnain Hyderabadwala Raksha Mistry
Jannat	2008	Arjun Dixit	Kunal Deshmukh
Raaz - The Mystery Continues	2009	Prithvi Singh	Mohit Suri
Tum Mile	2009	Akshay	Kunal Deshmukh
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai	2010	Shoaib Khan	Milan Luthria
Crook	2010	Jai Dixit / Suraj Bhardwaj	Mohit Suri
Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji	2011	Abhay Suri	Madhur Bhandarkar
Murder 2	2011	Arjun Bhaagwat	Mohit Suri
The Dirty Picture	2011	Abraham	Milan Luthria
Jannat 2	2012	Sonu Dilli "KKC - Kutti Kamini Cheez"	Kunal Deshmukh
Shanghai	2012	Joginder Parmar	Dibakar Banerjee
Raaz 3D	2012	Aditya	Vikram Bhatt
Rush	2012	Samar Grover	Priyanka Desai Shamin Desai
Ek Thi Daayan	2013	Bobo	Kannan Iyer
Ghanchakkar	2013	Sanjay Atre	Rajkumar Gupta
Raja Natwarlal	2014	Mithilesh "Raja" Kumar	Kunal Deshmukh
Ungli	2014	Nikhil Abhyankar	Rensil D'Silva
Mr. X	2015	Raghu Ram Rathod / Mr. X	Vikram Bhatt
Hamari Adhuri Kahani	2015	Aarav Ruparel	Mohit Suri
Azhar	2016	Mohammad Azharuddin	Tony D’Souza
Tigers	2016	Ayan	Danis Tanovic
Raaz: Reboot	2016	Aditya Shrivastava	Vikram Bhatt

CHARACTERS AND ROLES

Whatever role is given to him, he does his best. The role given in the movie Footpath as a gangster, I could tell as a scene stealer. In the movie, Murder with Ashmit Patel and Malika Sherawat, he has done the role of an obsessive lover with flourish. In the movie Zeher, he had portrayed a role of chief police who is jealous of his wife’s professional success. This movie is one of my favourite of Emraan Hashmi where he gets angry in some scenes which I really love.

Another movie which I loved is Gangster where he had portrayed undercover detective called Aakash. His character is an understated one. There is no unnecessary bluster or melodrama, and he does a pretty believable job. From this movie, he received his first Filmfare nomination for Best Performance in a Negative Role.

Awarapan, another movie that loved in which he has portrayed the role of Shivam, a ganste rwith a tragic past. He has concealed more than he reveals on screen. This is the excellent movie of Emraan Hashmi. This movie marks the emergence of a major talent.

2008 was a marking point for him. In 200, he had a film nmed Jannat, a love story set against the backdrop of match-fixing. Hashmi was cast as Arjun Dixit, a bookmaker. He displays the gamut of emotions with aplomb; he changes expressions like a chameleon changes colour.

The following year, Hashmi featured in Milan Luthria's period action-drama Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai with an ensemble cast including Ajay Devgan, Randeep Hooda, Kangana Ranaut and Prachi Desai. The picture, which depicted the rise of organised crime in Mumbai, saw Hashmi play Shoaib Khan, a character inspired by real-life gangster Dawood Ibrahim.With a domestic revenue of over ₹780 million (US$12 million), Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai emerged as a hit, and received a positive critical reception. For his performance, Hashmi earned positive reviews from critics and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 56th Filmfare Awards.

In 2011, Hashmi first appeared in Madhur Bhandarkar's romantic comedy Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, alongside Ajay Devgan, Omi Vaidya, Shazahn Padamsee, Tisca Chopra and Shruti Hassan. The film underperformed and received mixed reviews from critics, as did Hashmi's performance.  He next featured in Mohit Suri's slasher thriller Murder 2, alongside Jacqueline Fernandez, Prashant Narayanan and Sulagna Panigrahi. The film, as well as his performance generated mixed reviews from critics.  

Hashmi's final film in 2011 was Milan Luthria's biopic The Dirty Picture, featuring Vidya Balan as the controversial Indian actress Silk Smitha, alongside Naseeruddin Shah and Tusshar Kapoor. He was cast as Abraham, the narrator, who proclaims himself to be the protagonist's biggest enemy. The film opened to critical acclaim and Hashmi's performance was appreciated.

 In 2012, Hashmi appeared in Kunal Deshmukh's crime thriller Jannat 2 with Randeep Hooda and Esha Gupta. It was initially titled "Informer" but was later changed to the current title, making it a follow-up film to Jannat (2008).The film generated mixed reviews from critics, though was a success at the box office. He then starred alongside Abhay Deol, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Kalki Koechlin in Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai, an adaptation of writer Vassilis Vassilikos's novel Z and the 1969 French film of the same name. Set in a fictional town called Bharat Nagar, the political thriller traced corruption in India. The film opened to critical acclaim, and Hashmi received unanimous praise for his portrayal of Joginder Parmar, a videographer who sometimes shoots porn films. He received his second Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 58th Filmfare Awards for his performance.

Hashmi's next appearance was for Vikram Bhatt's supernatural horror Raaz 3D, alongside Bipasha Basu and Esha Gupta. Though a commercial success, the film and his performance received mostly negative reviews; critic Kunal Guha commented, "[Hashmi] takes his role as seriously as he could but his efforts couldn't exorcise the devilishly terrible plot from spelling doom for this film." Lisa Tsering of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The swarthy Hashmi [...] does a forgettable job. His final film of the year was Shamin Desai's delayed thriller Rush, which failed at the box office.

In 2013, Hashmi was first seen in Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj's supernatural thriller Ek Thi Daayan, alongside Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Kalki Koechlin. Critical opinion on the film was mostly positive, and Hashmi's performance also drew appreciation. Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV mentioned that Hashmi "gives the character of the haunted magician just that – a haunted feel that is just apt," whilst Shubhra Gupta called his performance "consistent", adding that he "is a performer who keeps getting better"

Hashmi's second appearance was for Raj Kumar Gupta's comic-thriller Ghanchakkar opposite Vidya Balan. Critics were divided in their judgment of the film, as well as Hashmi's performance. Sneha May Francis of Emirates 24/7 wrote that "Emraan Hashmi spins one of his acting career's most understated, yet imposing performances. He crafts [his character's] predicaments – his anger, frustration and suspicions – with effortless charm." Rajeev Masand was more critical of his performance, reflecting that he "struggles to shine under the limited scope of his role."^[  At the box office, both Ek Thi Daayan and Ghanchakkar underperformed. In 2014, Hashmi firstly starred in Kunal Deshmukh's Raja Natwarlal and Rensil D'Silva's Ungli, both of which flopped at the box office, with the latter being Hashmi's 5th consecutive failure at the box office.

In 2015, Hashmi appeared in two films. Mr. X was a disaster at the box office among with negative reviews, the other being the long-awaited Hamari Adhuri Kahani, opposite Vidya Balan for the third time. It was commercially average despite getting mixed reviews by critics although it received positive reactions by the audience.

His next film Azhar was released on 13 May 2016 to mixed reviews. He has finished work on Academy Award winning director Danis Tanovic's Tigers which is expected to release in 2017. He appeared in Vikram Bhatt's Raaz: Reboot, which is the fourth film in the Raaz film series was released on 16 September 2016. Raaz Reboot was average at the box office. He has also signed Remo D'Souza's tentatively titled Badtameez. He is currently shooting for his forthcoming film Captain Nawab which is set to release in 2017.

CONCLUSION

He has up and down in his career but failure has taught him to grow. More than his movies, songs are more popular. His movie songs are excellent and the way he present the songs are mind blowing. He has skills and potential to present the role he has given.

More than that, when his son was at the stage of Cancer, he managed both his professional and personal life. He treated his son like a friend rather than father and was with him when his son needed the most and cooled down to him for the treatment. He wrote the book so that when his grows up, he can know how bravely he survived and he could know what Cancer is. Not only this, he wrote the book so that his son could know how to handle the problem, mange the professional and personal life. His son could know how he has inspired his father to write the book.