Don't live in the past, work with younger minds: Emraan Hashmi on how actors should stay relevant

ACTOR Emraan Hashmi believes the key to staying relevant in the world of cinema is to be open-minded and learn from the younger generation, understanding how they think and work.

- PTI

In the 2000s and 2010s, Hashmi established himself as one of the most talented actors in the industry with his performances in movies such as "Gangster", "The Dirty Picture", "Shanghai" and "Tigers", and attained commercial success with his franchise like "Raaz", "Murder", and "Jannat".

Hashmi said it is important to reinvent oneself and that can happen by collaborating with contemporary filmmakers.

"Relevance is something I think it's important when you cross a certain age, when the new breed of actors and filmmakers come in. It's very important to kind of learn from them. I think that's what relevance is all about.

"When you tune into their minds and you do fresh and reinvent yourself, and do your fresh take on characters and genres and films, and not live in the past. That's where the whole game of relevance comes in," the actor told PTI in an interview.

As a performer, Hashmi said he enjoys shaking things up and challenging himself.