36 Facts About Emraan Hashmi

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Emraan Anwar Hashmi is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi cinema.

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Emraan Hashmi was born on 24 March 1979, in Mumbai, Maharashtra into a Bihari family.

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Emraan Hashmi's father, Syed Anwar Hashmi, is a businessman, who acted in the 1968 film Baharon Ki Manzil, and his mother, Maherrah Hashmi, was a homemaker.

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Emraan Hashmi's paternal grandfather, Syed Shauqat Hashmi, migrated to Pakistan after the partition of India, while his grandmother, Meherbano Mohammad Ali, was an actress, who stayed in India.

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Emraan Hashmi is the cousin of director Mohit Suri, with whom he has collaborated in several films.

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Emraan Hashmi later earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Mumbai.

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Emraan Hashmi made his acting debut in 2003, with Vikram Bhatt's thriller Footpath.

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Emraan Hashmi next starred in Anurag Basu's romance, Tumsa Nahin Dekha, opposite Dia Mirza.

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Emraan Hashmi next appeared in Anurag Basu's romantic thriller Gangster, co-starring Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja.

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Emraan Hashmi received positive reviews for his portrayal of an undercover detective called Aakash; Rediff.

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Emraan Hashmi then acted in the crime thriller The Killer and the romance Dil Diya Hai.

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Emraan Hashmi first starred in the comedy Good Boy Bad Boy alongside Tusshar Kapoor, Isha Sharvani and Tanushree Dutta.

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Emraan Hashmi then featured opposite Mrinalini Sharma and Shriya Saran in Mohit Suri's romantic thriller Awarapan.

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Emraan Hashmi was cast as the protagonist Shivam, a gangster with a tragic past.

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Emraan Hashmi [is] an actor who conceals more than he reveals on screen.

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In 2011, Emraan 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.

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Emraan Hashmi next featured in Mohit Suri's slasher thriller Murder 2, alongside Jacqueline Fernandez, Prashant Narayanan and Sulagna Panigrahi.

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Emraan Hashmi was cast as Abraham, the narrator, who proclaims himself to be the protagonist's biggest enemy.

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In 2012, Emraan Hashmi appeared in Kunal Deshmukh's crime thriller Jannat 2 with Randeep Hooda and Esha Gupta.

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Emraan Hashmi 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.

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The film opened to critical acclaim, and Emraan Hashmi received unanimous praise for his portrayal of Joginder Parmar, a videographer who sometimes shoots porn films.

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In 2013, Emraan 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.

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Critical opinion on the film was mostly positive, and Emraan Hashmi's performance drew appreciation.

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In 2014, Emraan 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 Emraan Hashmi's 5th consecutive failure at the box office.

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Emraan Hashmi played the leading role in Academy Award winning director Danis Tanovic's Tigers, which premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released digitally on the on-demand platform ZEE5 in November 2018.

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Emraan Hashmi then appeared in Vikram Bhatt's Raaz: Reboot, which is the fourth film in the Raaz film series and was released on 16 September 2016.

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Emraan Hashmi began shooting for Captain Nawab in late 2017 but it was reported in early 2018 that it was kept on hold.

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In February 2021, Emraan Hashmi was featured in romantic song 'Lut Gaye'.

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In 2022, Emraan Hashmi featured in a music video "Ishq Nahi Karte" by B Praak and Jaani.

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Emraan Hashmi is set to appear as the antagonist in YRF's Tiger 3, which will see him in a negative role pitted against Salman Khan's Tiger.

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Emraan Hashmi married Parveen Shahani in an Islamic wedding ceremony in December 2006 after a six and a half-year relationship.

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The couple have a son, Ayaan Emraan Hashmi, who was born on 3 February 2010.

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Five years later, in 2019 January, Ayaan Emraan Hashmi was declared cancer free.

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Emraan Hashmi is a cousin of Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt and his sister in law is Udita Goswami.

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Emraan Hashmi did not want to delay the shoot of Azhar any further and wanted to occupy his mind with work.

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In 2016, Emraan Hashmi launched the auto-biographical book called "The Kiss of Life", which was based on his son's journey of cancer.