Overview
- In a new News18 interview on January 12, Emraan Hashmi said a social-media 'woke brigade' targets films with hypermasculine leads, yet audiences continue to pay to watch them.
- He argued Animal succeeded because many men identified with it, adding that current theatrical trends lean on alpha-male tropes and familiar clichés.
- He described male actors as insecure about women-led or subject-driven projects, asking how many would choose roles like his in Haq and pointing to his earlier choice in The Dirty Picture.
- Haq, co-starring Yami Gautam and now streaming on Netflix, is reported to draw from a landmark Supreme Court judgment and has earned praise from peers including Karan Johar and Alia Bhatt.
- He said streaming allows more experimentation and noted his next project as Neeraj Pandey’s Netflix series Taskaree.