Hum Mile, a love story with a backdrop of infamous Mumbai floods

Roadies makes a ‘man’ out of you, feels the Bollywood star Imran Hashmi, much popularly known as the “serial kisser”.
In town, Hashmi played the perfect guest judge for MTV Hero Honda Roadies 7 auditions. A much different Hashmi from what we saw him here last time, some two years back -- promoting Awaarapan, as the actor answers to some of the queries on the reports of discrimination he faced when trying to buy a flat in Mumbai.
Some sections of the media, he says, blew his comments out of proportion. "The entire issue escalated into a different direction. The issue was trivialised. Other people were being asked for their comments," he shoots, adding that he wasn't talking of a trend. "I was talking about my experience," he says.

However, some good came out of the issue. "The minority commission wanted to resolve it peacefully. Report says there was evidence (of bias). Positive results came about and they hoped to pass an equal opportunity bill. And I am not just speaking on behalf of Muslims. It's for anybody who has been denied a flat because of his caste or religion, be it a Hindu or a Parsi."
Coming to the core issue, the auditions of the show, Emraan says, "I have watched a bit of Roadies and I know this show has grabbed the nation's attention. I don't know what to expect, but this season there'll be a tinge of humour in the show and I would be playing the guest judge."

Hashmi is still fresh in people's memories with Raaz ­ The Mystery Continues. And he's ready with Tum Mile, a film based on the Mumbai floods, which releases in November. "The floods are a sub-plot of the film. It's a story of two star-crossed ex-lovers, who are re-united after a hiatus of six years under the most chaotic circumstances. As the story unfolds, they find out new things about each other and themselves due to the extreme conditions therein. There's a very beautiful love story in there," he promises.

An integral part of the Vishesh films, we heard Hashmi will be playing a role for Mohit Suri's movie on Australian racial attacks on Indian students. Says Hashmi, "Yes, I will be playing a part in the movie, but it is still being scripted and most probabably, we would start shooting in December." Ask him about his role and he says, "There's nothing defined as yet, but yes, this movie is based on real-life characters, but won't be a judgemental movie. We would be showing the real picture."

While he’s flexing muscles for another flick, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai based on the underworld, Hashmi denies reports of him doing the remake of Gary Cooper’s ‘Love in the Afternoon’. Hashmi is touted to play Dawood Ibrahim.