Actor Emraan Hashmi has a packed 2021 as he has two big-ticket movies, Mumbai Saga with John Abraham and Chehre with Amitabh Bachchan, releasing within the upcoming months.
In Mumbai Saga, Emraan performs a tricky cop who’s up towards John Abraham’s gangster. At the movie’s trailer launch occasion in Mumbai on Friday, the Murder actor spoke about why he selected to be part of the Sanjay Gupta directorial.
He stated, “When Sanjay came to discuss Saga, I had pre-decided that he has come to offer a gangster role, I don’t know why. I was very pleasantly surprised when he said, ‘You’re playing a cop’. After that, I was quite anxious because I didn’t want to play a straight-jacketed uni-dimensional cop. And then Sanjay said that this cop is no less than a gangster.”
Hashmi additionally opened up about how he doesn’t like taking part in easy and simple characters and likes to “chew-on” extra layered and gray roles. He stated, “When Sanjay said that Inspector Vijay Savarkar (Emraan’s character in Mumbai Saga) is a gangster in uniform, I got excited because I had something to chew on in this film. I have never seen characters as black or white, all the characters I have done live in a grey world, which I find to be very relatable.”
Emraan was final seen in a gray position in Milan Luthria’s Once Upon in Mumbai. On returning to the gangster thriller style after a very long time, Emraan stated, “It is difficult to constantly surprise people in a genre, especially a gangster genre, hence I didn’t pick up a gangster script all these years, they were not offering that surprise factor, all of it seemed like a copy of something that is already done, but this (Mumbai Saga) is unique in its time and the narrative.”
Mumbai Saga, helmed by Sanjay Gupta is bankrolled by T-Series’ Bhushan Kumar. Along with John Abraham and Emraan Hashmi, the movie additionally stars Suniel Shetty, Kajal Aggarwal, Rohit Roy, Anjana Sukhani, Mahesh Manjrekar, Prateik Babbar, Samir Soni, Amole Gupte and Gulshan Grover.
Mumbai Saga is scheduled to launch on March 19, 2021.
