Emraan Hashmi

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Emraan Hashmi

Emraan Hashmi in Dil Diya Hai (2006)
Born: March 23, 1979
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation: Actor

. Emraan Hashmi (born as Emran Anwar Hashmi on 23 March 1979 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian actor.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

His birth name is Emran Anwar Hashmi, he is born to a Muslim father and Catholic mother. He later changed it to Farhaan Hashmi but recently decided to keep his original name but added an extra "a" as per numerology[citation needed]. He graduated from Sydenham in Mumbai where he majored graphics and animations[citation needed]. He is the nephew of Mahesh Bhatt and is the cousin of the actress turned director Pooja Bhatt. He got married to fiancée Parveen Shahani at an elaborate ceremony on Thursday, December 14th, 2005. The reception, was held at a plush hotel in Bandra, Mumbai, and was limited to the family members and close friends of the actor.

[edit] Career

Hashmi made his debut in 2003 with the film Footpath however, it did not do well at the box office. He shot to fame with Murder (2004) which was his first hit. His next few films such as Zeher (2005), Kalyug (2005) and Gangster (2006) have done well at the box office and the soundtracks in these respective films have helped create a large fan base. Amusingly, all the songs from his movies have become instant hits. The playback singers for most of his film's songs has been Himesh Reshammiya, Kunal Ganjawala and Atif Aslam.

Emraan is also famous for his kissing scenes in most of his movies. He has been nicknamed the 'serial kisser'. Emraan also described his first on screen kiss during an interview claiming that he was very nervous and almost opted out of the scene before going ahead and shooting it with the female co-star. The many actresses kissed by Emraan include Mallika Sherawat (Murder), Dia Mirza (Tumsa Nahin Dekha), Udita Goswami (Zeher, Aksar), Tanushree Dutta (Aashiq Banaya Aapne, Chocolate), Kangana Ranaut (Gangster) and Celina Jaitley (Jawani Diwani).

[edit] Other things

Emraan has beened nicnamed the serial kisser

[edit] Filmography

Year Film Role Other notes
2007 Awaarapan
2007 Train Filming
2007 Good Boy, Bad Boy Under Production
2006 Dil Diya Hai Saahil Khanna
2006 The Killer Nikhil Joshi
2006 Gangster Akash Mehra
2006 Aksar Ricky Sharma
2006 Jawani Diwani Mann Kapoor
2006 Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets Deva
2005 Kalyug Ali
2005 Aashiq Banaya Aapne Vikram Mathur
2005 Zeher Siddharth Mehra
2004 Tumsa Nahin Dekha Daksh Mittal
2004 Murder Sunny
2003 Foothpath Raghu Srivastav

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