Emraan Hashmi says Bollywood actors are ‘insecure,’ wonders how many would do a film like Haq; explains why Animal worked

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“Men in our industry are very insecure,” he claimed during a conversation with News18, adding, “How many people would’ve done a film like Haq? Every narrative should showcase a man’s victory. I’m not blowing my own trumpet here. But even back then, I did a film like The Dirty Picture. I liked the subject. We need to get off our insecurities and do more stuff like that.”

‘Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna’s hypermasculine era gave us Deewar and Trishul’

Emraan continued, “But it’s very clear what’s happening today, cinematically. As far as things are going theatrically, you need a hyper-masculine man, a villain, the tropes, the clichés. It’s very evident that it’s what the audience wants. This kind of portrayal has always worked. In the 70s and the 80s, the hypermasculine era of Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna gave us films like Deewar and Trishul that worked.”

Emraan Hashmi and Yami Gautam in Haq. (Credit: Facebook/@EmraanHashmi)

Slamming the “woke culture and its brigade,” the actor pointed out, “There’s a huge uproar because a woke culture has started off through social media and generally around the world. The hypermasculine man who’s seen as toxic is what’s doing in theatres. There’s an uproar surrounding it, but that’s what people are buying tickets for. That’s predominantly how our country is. Why did a film like Animal work? Yes, there was a woke brigade working against it. There was a perception to that. But there were so many men identifying with it.”