Syed Emraan Anwar Hashmi (pronounced [ɪmˈɾaːn ˈɦaːʃmi]; born 24 March 1979) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.

Hashmi made his acting debut with Vikram Bhatt's thriller Footpath (2003) alongside Aftab Shivdasani and Bipasha Basu.

[14] He achieved his breakthrough with Anurag Basu's erotic thriller Murder (2004) co-starring Mallika Sherawat and Ashmit Patel in lead roles.

[18] Although the film emerged as a commercial disaster at the box office,[19] Hashmi's portrayal of Daksh Mittal (a young millionaire who falls in love with a bargirl, played by Mirza) received mixed-to-positive reviews.

His performance, and the film, garnered positive reviews from critics, with Taran Adarsh writing: "Hashmi makes a brief, but solid, appearance and the actor is, like always, highly competent.

[22][23] Hashmi's first screen appearance in 2006 was Anant Mahadevan's erotic thriller Aksar alongside Udita Goswami and Dino Morea.

[24][25] He followed it up with Basu's musical romantic thriller Gangster: A Love Story co-starring debutante Kangana Ranaut and Shiney Ahuja in lead roles.

He then appeared in the crime thriller The Killer (adapted from the 2004 film Collateral)[29] and the romance Dil Diya Hai, both of which emerged as critical and commercial disasters.

[32] He next featured as a gangster with a tragic past in Suri's neo-noir action drama Awarapan (2007) alongside Mrinalini Sharma and Shriya Saran.

His final release of the year was the romantic thriller The Train, co-starring Geeta Basra and debutante Sayali Bhagat in lead roles.

Narrating the story of a married couple caught in a complex extramarital love triangle, the film received mixed reviews from critics upon release, and emerged as a commercial failure at the box-office.

Depicting a love story set against the backdrop of match fixing, the film also starred Sonal Chauhan, Javed Sheikh and Sameer Kochhar.

As the brooding, prescient painter, who paints death on his canvas and falls in love with one of subjects, he is suitably aggrieved, desperate and afraid.

[42][43] He then starred opposite Soha Ali Khan in Kunal Deshmukh's romantic drama disaster Tum Mile, which narrated a love story set against the backdrop of the 2005 Maharashtra floods.

[42] The following year, Hashmi featured in Milan Luthria's period action drama Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai with an ensemble cast including Ajay Devgan, Kangana Ranaut, Prachi Desai and Randeep Hooda.

The film, which depicted the rise of organised crime in Mumbai, saw Hashmi play Shoaib Khan, a character inspired by real-life gangster Dawood Ibrahim.

[45][46] Blessy Chettiar of Daily News and Analysis described him as "top class", while Komal Nahta remarked: "This is easily Hashmi's best performance so far.

[52][53] Hashmi began 2011 with Madhur Bhandarkar's romantic comedy Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji alongside Devgn, Omi Vaidya, Shazahn Padamsee, Tisca Chopra and Shruti Hassan.

[60][61] His final film appearance that year was Luthria's biographical musical drama The Dirty Picture, featuring Vidya Balan as the controversial Indian actress Silk Smitha, alongside Naseeruddin Shah and Tusshar Kapoor.

[67][68] He next starred alongside Abhay Deol, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Kalki Koechlin in Dibakar Banerjee's political thriller Shanghai, an adaptation of writer Vassilis Vassilikos's novel Z and the 1969 French film of the same name.

"[74] [75] Hashmi's next appearance that year was for Vikram Bhatt's supernatural horror film Raaz 3: The Third Dimension, collaborating again with Bipasha Basu and Esha Gupta.

critic Kunal Guha commented: "[Hashmi] takes his role as seriously as he could but his efforts couldn't exorcise the devilishly terrible plot from spelling doom for this film.

[81] In 2013, Hashmi's first film appearance was in Ekta Kapoor and Vishal Bhardwaj's supernatural thriller Ek Thi Daayan, alongside Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi and Koechlin in lead roles.

[93] He then played the leading role in Academy Award-winning director Danis Tanović's drama Tigers, which premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and was later released digitally on the on-demand platform ZEE5 in November 2018.

[97][98] His second film that year was the long-awaited musical romantic drama Hamari Adhuri Kahani, opposite Balan for the third time, alongside Rajkummar Rao.

The following year, he starred in the biographical drama Azhar (2016), based on the life of Indian cricketer and former national team captain Mohammad Azharuddin.

[106][107] After a special appearance as himself in the comedy Welcome to New York (2018), Hashmi made his OTT debut with the spy thriller web series Bard of Blood, which was based on the novel of the same name by Bilal Siddiqui.

[108][109][110][111] The same year, Hashmi also featured in the music video of the romantic song "Lut Gaye", presented by T-Series, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru, and sung by Jubin Nautiyal.

[115] Hashmi had a career resurgence when he starred as Aatish Rehman, the antagonist in Maneesh Sharma's action thriller Tiger 3, co-starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.

Hashmi will make his debut in Telugu cinema with Sujeeth's action thriller They Call Him OG, co-starring Pawan Kalyan and Priyanka Arul Mohan.