Yesterday I happened to watch "Once upon a time in Mumbai(OUATIM)". This flick had been declared a hit a few days back. In fact, all the news channels were flooded with programs showing how strong dialogue centric films of seventies were back. I personally did find this movie a pretty decent one. Performance wise, all the actors were very good. But out of the lot, I really liked how Emraan Hasmi has interpreted his character. Watching him act, I mentally browsed through his career so far and was kind of surprised to find that this (in)famous "Serious Kisser" of bollywood has quietly built on an excellent body of work over the past six-odd years, without any body really taking serious notice!
My early memories of this new generation leading man was synonomus to that of an acting Himesh Reshammiya for quite sometime. Seriously, I always felt that he was a Himesh look alike. Blame that on the famous aashiq banaya aapne track. 'Murder' did come prior to that, but then I'd kind of missed that movie during those days.
I was discussing about this actor with a few of my friends and almost all of them thought nothing about him. Which essentially meant, " They neither loved him nor hated him, but just ignored him." Its not too difficult to understand. They say, this guy is in movies only because of his family connections (Bhatt camp) and he is more famous due to his bad boy image rather than his acting abilities.
But haven't we seen far worse actors making it huge in bollywood? Suniel Shetty is almost completing twenty years in the industry. Today's hot star Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan were disgusting actors when they started out. But they hung on, slogged it out and improved by leaps and bounds. Emraan after all is a far better actor compared to the initial days of the above mentioned stars. In fact, I secretly believe that he may even be a better actor than quite a few of them on present day!
Take a look at his notable performances. He did a pretty decent job (of acting!!!) in Murder. He was quite good in Aashiq banaya aapne. He was excellent in Awarapan, Tum Mile, Jannat and Kalyug. His chemistry with the great Irrfan Khan in The Killer was simply superb. And in the latest movie OUATIM that I saw yesterday, he was at his best.
Just come to think of it. In such a small time frame of six years, if he has managed to accumulated such great body or work, and still going strong, his future looks nothing but bright. For record, he has already signed a movie Dil toh bachcha hai Ji with non other than Madhur Bhandarkar. He is also to be seen in Raj Kumar Santhoshi's untitled mega project.
With his forth coming movie Crook getting ready for release, he needs our good wish and here is wishing him all the best for his career.
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