Bollywood Home» Popular Male Actors in Bollywood »Emraan Hashmi 'Bollywood' is the term normally used to describe the movie industry of Mumbai. This industry has seen the rise and fall of many actors. Emraan Hashmi is a well known or rather a popular actor of Bollywood, who has proved himself as an actor. Emraan Hashmi born in the year 1979 has gradually started climbing the ladder of success.

Emraan Hashmi made his debut in the year with the film "Footpath'. This was in the year 2003. The film did not particularly achieve success at the box office. However, Hashmi just had to wait for the year ahead of him. For it was in the year 2004, that the film 'Murder' was released. In this film, he starred opposite actress Malika Sherawat. Backed up by a good musical score and an interesting storyline, the film went on to be a hit. However, the character played by Emraan Hashmi had shades of negativity to it. In spite of this, the film catapulted him as one of the successful actors of the early 21st century.



This film was followed by a spate of other successful films. These are 'Zeher' (2005), 'Kalyug' 'Aksar' (2005) and 'Gangster' (2006).

It is in the film 'Aksar' that we see him once again playing a negative role. The film was in the nature of a thriller. He movie 'Gangster' also received great success at the box office and established his worth as a actor. However, in the the year 2008 we expect to see him in a movie, to be produced by Warner Brothers.

Even though Hashmi enjoys the tag of a serial kisser on screen, an image which he is very keen to shed by refraining from any more kissing scenes.

In the few years since Emraan Hashmi has been in Bollywood, he already has a number of memorable films to his credit. These include films like 'Ashiq Banaya Aapne' directed by Vikram Mathur (a well known director of Bollywood), starring Tanushree Dutta and Sonu Sood and the movie 'Dil Diya Hai' opposite the debutante heroine -Geeta Basra.

Though he has not received any awards, he has succeeded to win the hearts of the audience.

With so many films done in so short a time, it is now wonder that Emraan Hashmi is regarded as one of the best actors of Bollywood.

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