Emraan Hashmi is currently basking in the amazing success of his recent release Tiger 3. In the Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer, he plays the antagonist. In a recent interview, the actor opened up about the time when was given the tag of ‘serial-kisser’. He also revealed why he eventually distanced himself from it. Let’s find out what he said.
Emraan Hashmi on his serial kisser tag
In an interview with The Indian Express, Emraan Hashmi spoke about his journey as an actor and how he dealt with the tag of ‘serial-kisser’. He said, Then lies an eternal trap for all actors where if you are playing a commercial lead, you will be trapped by a certain archetype of a character or a hero. And here it was this, whatever you call it (serial kisser), it was an absurd name. It was actually given to myself as a joke but stuck with people for some reason.”
The Tiger 3 actor further said that the name stuck with the audiences and journalists and he benefitted from it as his films did well at the box office. However, Emraan stated that he moved on after a point being the audiences rejected the tag. “At one point I felt that it had played its part and I was ready to move on before it was rejected badly. You can’t serve the same dish to people time and again. You have to do something different”, he added.
Emraan Hashmi’s work front
Emraan was recently seen playing ISI agent Aatish Rehman who is after Avinash ‘Tiger’ Singh Rathore in Tiger 3. Both his performance and the film have been well received. Tiger 3 has turned out to be a major commercial success. Prior to this, Emraan was seen alongside Akshay Kumar in Selfiee which failed to create an impact.
For a large part of his career, Emraan was known for his association with the Bhatt camp and did films like Murder, Murder 2, Gangster, Aksar, Zeher and Aashique Banaya Aapne among others.
