Emraan Hashmi recalls meeting Chehre co-star Amitabh Bachchan as a child & says ‘He pulled my cheeks’.

Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi will be seen with Amitabh Bachchan in Rumi Jafry’s directorial film Chehre. While Emraan Hashmi is rarely starstruck, he said he let Amitabh know just how much he admires him. 

In the film  Chehre, Emraan Hashmi plays a man who lands on the doorstep of Amitabh Bachchan’s character on a particularly stormy night. Amitabh Bachchan plays a man with a fascination for murder mysteries. He and his friends trap Emraan’s character at the house. This is the first time Emraan has teamed up with Amitabh Bachchan.

Talking about working with Amitabh Bachchan and his fondness for him, Emraan Hashmi said of him in an interview that their connection goes back many years. “I was awestruck and I had told him that too. The history of my conversations with Mr. Bachchan, in my household, started with my mother. She told me how he pulled my cheeks when I was five years old. He was shooting for Naseeb at a hotel at Bandstand. My mother used to work there as a manager. She was going by, with me in her arms and Mr. Bachchan had pulled my cheeks,” he said. 

“I was so obsessed with his films. I even told him that I have watched Sholay, Natwarlal about 50-100 times. I used to not eat lunch after coming back from school till I got to see a rerun of Mr. Bachchan’s films,” he said.

It also stars Annu Kapoor, Krystle D’Souza, Rhea Chakraborty, Raghubir Yadav, and Siddhanth Kapoor, which are scheduled to release in cinema halls on August 27. 

Conveying happiness about the decision to release the movie in the theatres, Emraan said, “This is also my first film with Mr. Amitabh Bachchan so I wanted to do everything right. Our producer, Anand Panditji too assured us of a theatrical release with all safety measures in place and has kept his promise. We all fell in love with cinema because of the magic that it creates in the cinema halls. 

And that is why films that deserve the big screen should settle for nothing less. I am eager to see people come back to the theatres with the thrilling surprise we have in store for them with Chehre.”