After portraying the antagonist in Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer Tiger 3, Emraan Hashmi is all set to don the villain’s avatar again in filmmaker Sujeeth’s upcoming directorial venture, OG. Emraan recently spoke about the difference between Bollywood and the southern Indian film industries.
Speaking to The Times of India, he said, “I never imagined myself getting into the South film industry. But it was a fantastic script and a great character. Sujeeth is a great director and is making this film on an enormous canvas.”
“We have a lot to learn from the way South films are made… I think South filmmakers are way more disciplined than we are (in Hindi cinema). Every penny that they spend on their film shows on screen. I think we often spend money in the wrong areas in Hindi films, and it doesn’t eventually translate on screen. They have finesse in their films when it comes to VFX, the scale and choice of path-breaking stories. We have some ground to cover before we can match that and we have a lot to learn from the way they make films,” Emraan added.
However, Emraan doesn’t want to get bracketed as a villain. “I think that finding a groove is dangerous because that could put you in a box again. I hated the fact that I was boxed into certain kind of roles for almost 15 years. There was a deliberate effort to get out of that box and try something different because I wasn’t growing as an actor. I was sleepwalking on every set. That is when I took up films like Shanghai and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. It’s actually a huge trap. A lot of actors from the West also probably bail out from doing characters like Bond, because you gradually get boxed in sometimes. They say it is detrimental to your career because people can’t see you as anything else when you come out of that,” he said.
Emraan is currently working on the Telugu film OG. The film is scheduled to be released on September 27 this year.
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