Emraan Hashmi On Disney+ Hotstar’s Bollywoodland Drama ‘Showtime’: “It’s A Very Cutthroat World”
13.03.2024 - 09:13
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EXCLUSIVE: Emraan Hashmi was born to play Raghu Khanna. As a member of the famous Bhatt family who began a two-decade career in Bollywood behind the cameras before becoming a famous face in front of them, playing the son of a media mogul in Disney+ Hotstar‘s latest original will have been familiar territory.
His role as Raghu Khanna in Showtime has indeed led him to lean into personal experience. “When I first read the synopsis, which was just an idea set in the world of Bollywood and glitz at that point, I was intrigued,” he says. “I’ve had the experience in the industry for almost 25 years. I started off as an assistant director in 2001, before I made my film debut in 2003. I thought I could bring that experience to the table. I might not have been fully fledged producer, but as actor I have good rapport with them. Subconsciously, my experiences bleed into my character.
“There are lots of dynamics in producing films, from the inception to shooting and releasing and it is nothing less than a mammoth task. I might not be in sync with how international industries work, but when I saw the show Entourage a long while back I thought how it’s not very different to Bollywood.
“In any film business the dynamics are the same — Bollywood or Hollywood. It’s very cutthroat. The whole idea is to cut across these boundaries and get across to different cultures and present the industry how it is.”
Showtime, which is from Karan Johar’s Dharmatic Entertainment, launched on Friday (March 8) and industry watchers will be closely following the Ormax ratings to see if Disney India, which is in the process of merging with Reliance Industries, has a hit on its hands. The Indian streamer has needed a boost after a tough 2023 in which it
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