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Emraan Hashmi’s cameo in The Ba***ds of Bollywood has quickly become an internet sensation, earning widespread attention and praise. However, the actor recently revealed that his son, Ayaan Hashmi, has not reacted positively to the cameo or to the sudden spike in his father’s popularity. In a conversation with Hindustan Times, Emraan said: “Okay, I don’t know if I should say this on camera, but he’s… he’s really embarrassed about it,” he admitted.
“In school, you have these societies where you teach stuff or do your own bit. So all his friends are saying now, why don’t you become an intimacy coach?” Smiling, he continued, “I shouldn’t be saying this. So he’s like, ‘you have ruined things for me in school, and this is the running joke’. He also says, ‘every day I come to school, this is what I have to face… so would you just stop.’”
Emraan is currently gearing up for the release of his film Haq, co-starring Yami Gautam and directed by Suparn Varma. The film is based on the landmark Shah Bano case, which changed the discourse around Muslim women’s rights in India. Responding to critics who have labelled the film “anti-Muslim,” Emraan told ANI: “I don’t know what people will say, but as a liberal Muslim, I can say that I had no problems with the viewpoint of the film. Because we are not maligning any community, if we were, I wouldn’t have done this film.”
He further highlighted his personal values, sharing details of his secular upbringing. “And just to give a viewpoint of the kind of Muslim I am, I married Parveen, who is a Hindu. Meri family mein mere bete puja bhi karte hai, namaaz bhi padhte hai. (In my family, my son performs puja as well as offers namaz). This is my secular upbringing. So from my point of view, I am watching this film. Everyone watches a film according to their conditioning, religious tenets, upbringing, environment, and viewpoint,” he added.
Reflecting on his cameo in The Ba***ds of Bollywood Emraan spoke to SCREEN about how the scene featuring him and Raghav Juyal was inspired by a real-life incident. “The writer is a very good friend of mine, Bilal. And I have a sneaky feeling that he’s actually taken it from one of my birthday celebrations I had with a fan, where he was also there. This was below my building, and you can see it on, it must be on YouTube also, there’s this fan who started off singing and just wouldn’t stop, and there was this embarrassed expression on my face. Bilal was there; I know he’s taken it from there only,” Emraan said.
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