Back-to-back 17 FLOPs…Emraan Hashmi has been yearning for a hit for 14 years, will his luck change with ‘Awarapan 2’?

Emraan Hashmi Hit and Flop Movies: Emraan Hashmi is going to explode the theaters once again. The audience is eagerly waiting for his most awaited movie ‘Awarapan 2’. Made under the direction of Nitin Kakkar, this film will be released in theaters on 14 August 2026. Recently its teaser was released, which received a tremendous response from the fans. Imran was last seen in ‘Haq’, which was released in theaters this year. In this, Yami Gautam was seen in the lead role with him. People liked this courtroom drama a lot but still this film failed to attract the audience to the theaters and proved to be a flop at the box office.

In such a situation, now everyone’s eyes are fixed on ‘Awarapan 2’. The biggest reason for this is not only that the film is a sequel, but Emraan Hashmi There is also a long flop period. Imran, once a superstar of romantic and musical films, has been waiting for a big hit film for the last 14 years. His last clean box office hit was ‘Raaz 3’. After this, he worked not in one or two but in 17 films continuously, but none of these films could achieve major success at the box office. Some were average, while most proved to be flops or disasters.

Didn’t get a big hit after ‘Raaz 3’

‘Raaz 3’ was released in the year 2012. Bipasha Basu and Esha Gupta were seen with Emraan Hashmi in this horror thriller made under the direction of Vikram Bhatt. The film did great business worldwide and was a hit at the box office. Made with a budget of Rs 28 crore, this film collected more than Rs 99 crore at the worldwide box office. But after this Imran’s career could not pick up the same pace.

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The magic of 17 consecutive films did not work

After ‘Raaz 3′, Emraan Hashmi worked in films like Rush, Ek Thi Daayan, Ghanchakkar, Raja Natwarwal, Ungli, Mr. Some of these films were appreciated by the critics, the music of some was liked a lot and in some, Imran’s acting was also praised. But if we look at the box office scale, none of these films could achieve success like ‘Raaz 3’. Many films flopped, while some became disasters.

This is the reason why now Emraan Hashmi’s fans hope that ‘Awarapan 2’ can give a new flight to his career again. Even though ‘Awarapan’, released in 2007, did not do well at the box office, it became a cult film with time. Its songs, emotional story and Imran’s character are still very popular among the audience. This is the reason why there is a lot of excitement among the fans regarding the sequel.

Will also return to horror with ‘Rooh’

Apart from ‘Awarapan 2’, Emraan Hashmi is planning another big project.soul‘ is also in discussion. This will be a supernatural musical horror film, due to which Emraan will return to the horror genre after about five years. The film will be directed by Mayank Sharma, while Rooh, made under the banner of Wicked Films, is being produced by Vikram Khakhar and Sunny Khanna. ‘Rooh’ is expected to be released in theaters in 2027.

Now it will be interesting to see whether ‘Awarapan 2’ will be able to end Emraan Hashmi’s 14-year long drought or his flop streak will continue. However, the great response received by the teaser has definitely indicated that Imran’s craze among the audience is still intact. If the story and music do wonders this time too, then ‘Awarapan 2’ can prove to be the biggest comeback film of Emraan Hashmi’s career.