Emraan Hashmi Recalls Meeting Chehre Co-Star Amitabh Bachchan As A Child: “He Pulled My Cheeks” | Bollywood

Emran Hashmi will be seen with Amitabh Bachchan in Chehre by Rumi Jafry. While Emraan is rarely star-struck, he said he let Amitabh know how much he admired her.

In Chehre, Emraan plays a man who lands on the doorstep of Amitabh Bachchan’s character on a particularly storytelling evening. Amitabh plays a man fascinated by mysterious murders. He and his friends trap the character of Emraan in the house. This is the first time Emraan has teamed up with Amitabh.

Talk about working with Amitabh Bachchan and his admiration for him, Emraan Hashmi said in an interview with Bollywood Hungama that their connection goes back many years. “I was actually amazed and told him that too. The story of my conversations with Mr. Bachchan, in my house, started with my mother. She told me how he pulled my cheeks. when I was five. He was filming for Naseeb in a hotel in Bandstand. My mother worked there as a manager. She walked by, with me in her arms and Mr. Bachchan had pulled my cheeks, ”he said. he declares.

“I was so obsessed with his films. I even told him that I had watched Sholay, Natwarlal about 50 to 100 times. he added.

Chehre also stars Annu kapoor, Krystle D’Souza, Rhea Chakraborty, Raghubir Yadav, and Siddhanth Kapoor, will be released in theaters on August 27.

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Expressing his joy at the decision to release the film in theaters, Emraan told PTI: “This is also my first film with Mr. Amitabh Bachchan so I wanted to do everything right. Our producer, Anand Panditji also assured us of ‘a theatrical release with all safety measures in place and kept its promise. We have all fallen in love with cinema because of the magic it creates in theaters. And that’s why, the movies that deserve the big screen should settle for nothing less. I can’t wait to see people return to the movies with the exciting surprise we have in store for them with Chehre. “