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Emraan Hashmi, who has been tagged as a 'serial kisser' by the media, says he is sick of kissing people on screen and is happy that his latest flick Awarapan does not have any such scenes.
"I was sick of kissing on screen," the 28-year-old actor said during a news conference in New Delhi to promote Awarapan. "I was being typecast as a kisser. Thankfully, I'm not kissing anyone in this film.
"When I used to see myself kissing on screen, I did not feel good myself and I can understand what the audience must have felt. There was a time when people came up to me and said that our kids love you but they cannot go to see your films."
He added: "I wanted to break this stereotyping of myself and I took a risk in Awarapan by not doing all that I was previously related to. This film marks the second phase of Emraan Hashmi."
Awarapan, which deals with the serious issue of flesh trade in Southeast Asia, portrays a Pakistani woman, played by newcomer Mrinalini Sharma, trafficked to Hong Kong.
Emraan Hashmi plays the role of a small time crook from Jodhpur who lands up in Hong Kong and saves the girl from the traffickers. The film, which released June 29, opened to a lukewarm response at the box-office but its business has been picking up since Sunday.
Awarapan marks the first major overseas release for Emraan Hashmi.
"The film has been released in over six countries and is doing good business in the US, UK and Dubai. I'm very excited at this response since it's my big overseas release," said the actor, who is sporting long hair and stubble.
The actor, who has acted in around 16 films, has his platter full with two more movies, one with the Bhatt camp titled Jannat and the other is touted to be a sequel to Raaz, a 2002 horror film staring Dino Morea and Bipasha Basu.
Emraan wants to land the role of the ghost in the sequel to Raaz and in Jannat he plays a bookie. Jannat deals with the shady world of betting in cricket and is said to focus on Bob Woolmer's mysterious death during the World Cup.
Voted out of the music talent hunt show Fame Gurukul by the audience in the last round, singer Arpita Mukherjee said the audience vote is an ambiguous system and its authenticity is doubtful.
"Audience vote is an ambiguous system as most of the competitors who are not talented win music talent hunt reality shows," Arpita told said.
"Are viewers, who are voting, fools that they cannot differentiate between the talented and untalented singers?
"Channels claim that they receive a huge number of votes but nobody knows whether they really pour in or they quote the figures according to their convenience as it is not a transparent procedure," she added.
The budding talent, who was among the four finalists of the musical talent hunt show, said that reality shows are fabricated and "by means of clever editing they portray a false image" of the person on screen.
"Reality shows create unnecessary hype. They project a completely wrong image of a person. He and she may be completely opposite of what is shown on screen."
Arpita, who had also participated in the music talent hunt show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Golden Voice , agreed that personal biases amongst the teachers and judges of talent hunt shows couldn't be ruled out.
"A person in an extremely prestigious position of a judge must be impartial and adjudicate only on musical ability of the participant. If the (current) trend continues, then these reality shows have a dim future," said Arpita, who has already anchored shows like Fun Antakshari on ETV Urdu and Meri Baat on Doordarshan.
Arpita had sung the title track of Samar Khan's film Kuch Meetha Ho Jaye and now she is ready to wow audiences with her debut album Yeh Hai Chand . She has also lent her voice for two songs in Ashok Nanda's upcoming movie Riwaaz .
Bobby Deol has been trying different hairdos in his films. After the braided look in Shakalaka Boom Boom , blonde locks in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom , the actor is trying out a new hair do in upcoming release, Ek - The Power of One .
Celebrity stylist Aalim Hakim, who has styled Bobby's hair in Ek after Shakalaka ..., says he has straightened the locks for the new film.
For Ek , an action movie, the director initially wanted Bobby to sport stubble. "But then everybody with a dark character has one. So we decided on a thin beard for Bobby," said Aalim.
Well, now that's what we call versatility!
