Emraan Hashmi is an Indian film actor who started his career with Vikram Bhatt’s crime thriller Footpath released in 2003 . Footpath was declared flop at box-office but his next release Murder , a erotic romantic thriller released in 2004 was blockbuster and earned him “Serial Kisser of Bollywood” tag . In 2005 he acted as Inspector Siddharth Mehra in Zeher ( 2005 ) the movie was the directorial debut for Emraan’s cousin Mohit Suri . Songs of Zeher were chartbusters but declared average at box-office meanwhile his acting was acclaimed by the audience . From 2006 -2012 he delivered many hits but movies like The Killer ( 2006 ) , Awarapan ( 2007 ) , The Train ( 2007 ) , Tum Mile ( 2009 ) , Shanghai ( 2012 ) etc were flops . Jannat ( 2008 ) is the biggest hit ( till 2021 ) of Emraan’s career . Chehre with Amitabh Bachchan released on 27 August 2021 .