He is neither a Kapoor nor a Khan but Emraan Hashmi has consistently managed to deliver hits. His most recent film Jannat 2 is one of the biggest hits of the year. Hashmi, who has created his own niche in the industry, declares he doesn't believe in competition. The 33-year-old actor will be seen next in Shanghai, where he plays a small-town journalist, who also shoots porn films. Hashmi claims that his character in the film pushed him to his limits and was the ugliest he could look on screen.

In conversation with Sonil Dedhia, Hashmi talks about the film, his choice of movies, and why he is unfazed by the critics. Shanghai is one of the biggest movies of the year. What do you think of that? It's a new time in our industry with the kind of films that are being made and Shanghai is one step in that direction.

All these years our industry has functioned in a formulaic way where if something becomes a hit or works at the box office, it gets repeated again and again. Very few filmmakers step out of the crease and try to do something different and Dibakar Banerjee is one of them. I would like to work in more films like Shanghai which surprise audiences. I would like Shanghai to do the same kind of business that any other commercial film would do.

Image: Emraan Hashmi