Now, Hashmi has hit back, suggesting that in the sequel to her 2010 movie 'Hisss' she should act with a serpent. Sherawat had played a snake-woman in the film which also starred Irrfan Khan and Divya Dutta (less)

"I have never given the right to industry to rate me or criticise me. Their criticism never bothered me.

I am not an underdog. I have been fairly well rated by the audience.

"People in Bollywood criticised me when I started the trend of erotica with Murder. I just did my own thing without paying attention to them.

I am happy today to witness such content have become the integral part of mainstream cinema," Hashmi told PTI. The 33-year-actor's latest film Jannat 2 has not set the cash registers ringing but the actor says he would stick to his kind of cinema and not imitate the A-listers of the industry.

"I always wanted to do something different. I never followed the path which Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have taken.

If I would have done that then I would have lost my originality. I would prefer to fail rather than be successful by doing their kind of films," he said (less)

I can't throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea.

The film has to be a little twisted and quirky." This boy sure knows what sells, good with a lot of bad, right? For more Bollywood news and gossip, keep watching Planet Bollywood News every night at 7, only on zoOm - India's No.

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According to a source, Deshmukh feels that no other actor will suit the role better than Emraan Hashmi. Kunal Deshmukh has approached Emraan for the main lead.

When contacted Manish Hariprasad, UTV's Creative Head on the film said, "Kunal is a fabulous director with mainstream commercial sensibilities. He proved it earlier with Jannat and now with the sequel.

We have been in talks for some time. He's looking at doing a film in the erotic Thriller genre; however the story or the cast is not finalized yet" (less)

But it was 'Murder' a year later that brought him in limelight. He continued to work with Bhatt camp in 'Zeher' (2005) 'Gangster' (2006), 'Awarapan' (2007), 'Jannat' (2008), 'Raaz ? The mystery continues' (2009), 'Tum Mile' (2009) and 'Murder 2' (2011).

Most of his movies did well at the box office and earned him the tag of serial kisser. "Emraan post 'Murder 2' may now look like a safe proposition because till then it was not like that.

Post 'Jannat' he was emerging but still not finding takers..

people were accepting but media was not after him. After 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbai' and 'Murder 2' he has had phenomenal success.

Today he is a major star. Having created monster we will not let this monster devour us.

Otherwise what is the point of saying that we will not work with stars," Bhatt told PTI. The Bhatts are known to introduce newcomers like Emraan John Abraham ('Jism'), Kunal Khemu ('Kalyug'), Sonal Chauhan ('Jannat'), Neha Sharma ('Crook'), Sunny Leone ('Jism 2') and others.

They have never much worked with stars. "He (Emraan) has other people to work with which will make him richer.

He is our flesh but he does not have work with us always. That is why Kunal Khemu is one of the major actors in whom we will invest.

Even Randeep Hooda is a great actor..

his potential has not been exploited properly and plus many more. We will not lean on Emraan Hashmi only, otherwise we will be like anybody else.

We will move away from the safety of being with Emraan," Bhatt said (less)

The actress who initially expressed reservations about acting with Emraan Hashmi in the film - as she felt their pairing would look stale now - is now going out of her way to adjust dates for the film. And Emraan too is doing the same.

It seems the duo are very keen to re-create their on-screen chemistry with the film. Manish Hariprasad from the production house confirms the developments.

"It's true. First, Vidya gave us a chunk of days based on Emraan's dates for September.

However, her October dates did not match Emraan's so he helped us by giving dates which were the same as Vidya's." Adds Emraan, "We are all making sure that the film starts as soon as possible and are super excited about it!" Wonder if the serial kisser get to lock lips with Vidya in this film too, as he did in TDP? (less)

Not only that, post shooting for the film, the actor was asked to get back in shape within two months for his next two films. Speaking about his transition from fat to fit, Emraan says, "For Dibakar's film, I was put on the fast food diet 20 days prior to the shoot of the film.

I binged on pastas, pizzas, cakes and ice creams for three months. It was a blissful time.

And I also stopped exercising. Then I was asked to lose all that weight within two months for my next two films.

" From fat to fit Emraan admits that shedding the weight was a lot more difficult than anticipated. "It was a task! I was given two months to get back to shape.

I worked my a** off to lose that flab. My trainer Pravin Tokas set the whole diet chart and training regime for me.

I was put on a high protein, low fat and low sugar diet. My breakfast was egg whites and lunch was salads and grilled or boiled chicken, evening was again egg white and night was a mix of salads and fish.

I used to have craving for food in the first week of my weight lose training and after that your body adapts again. I worked out at my house gym for an hour six days a week, sometime once a day and sometime twice a day.

I did a mix of cross section of exercises and cardio." Side effects Going on such a severe workout regime obviously had its after effects.

"When you have to remove fat and start rigorous workout, your body does somewhere crash. Such drastic change in diet affects your immunity and I fell sick around four times around that time," rues the actor.

Emran says from now on, he will think many times before making his body go through such a drastic change. "Doing such extreme stuff is not advisable.

I wouldn't want to oscillate from one extreme to the other that fast because my body will crash. If I have a role where I need to make a paunch again, that will have to wait for a while now.

" So will he be seen in six-pack abs in both his upcoming films, "I have an aversion to the term six-pack. I generally prefer a fitter body.

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Says a source close to the project, "Let's face it. Emraan Hashmi is the film's selling point.

During the time when 'Rush' was first started and it was titled 'Raftaar 24x7' to now when it's finally completed Emraan's stock has risen dramatically.We counted on Emraan to carry the film forward and he didn't let us down.

He went out of his way to accommodate our film, shot three extra songs with us." On Tuesday, after Emraan finished completing the last song for 'Rush', a romantic number with Sagarika Ghatge in Goa, to show his appreciation for Emraan's support the producer Shailendra Singh of Percept presented the star with a special trophy of appreciation.

Says Shailendra Singh, "Yes, we did present Emraan with a trophy after our last day's shooting of 'Rush'. He has gone out of his way to accommodate the film, purely out of sentimental reasons.

We all wanted Shamin Desai's dream to come true. Emraan was really shy about accepting the trophy.

He felt he was not worthy of it. But we disagree.

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