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Emraan Hashmi the magician?

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Hashmi in last year's 'The Dirty Picture'

Emraan Hashmi seems to popping up on the silver screen on a regular basis lately. With the success of ��The Dirty Picture�۪ (2011) and his��last week’s��release, ��Jannat 2�۪, he seems to be emerging as one of the most bankable stars. The latest is that Hashmi has been signed in Vishal Bhardwaj�۪s ��Ek Thi Daayan�۪��to play the role of a magician.

Apparently, Hashmi is being taught the��trade��by one of India�۪s most prestigious magicians in order for him to preform the tricks himself on screen. A source speaking to Bollywood Hungama stated, ��ω�_Emraan doesn’t want trick photography to be used for his magician’s part in Ek Thi Daayan. He wants all the magic tricks on screen to look, to BE, real. Vishal Bhardwaj has decided to hire one of India’s topmost magicians, whom we won’t like to name at the moment, to teach Emraan some really intricate magical tricks.”

Hashmi is to play a very intense character in the film,��in which��he has to understand his character including��his psychiatric state. ���Emraan’s character ‘sees things’. We don’t know till the end if his visions are real or imagined. Emraan has to understand the psyche of a delusional man before he can convincingly play a man who sees things that others can’t. It’s a tough role,�۝ the source continues.

The film stems for a short story written by journalist Mukul Sharma about supernatural powers. Forms of magic and witchcraft are a major part of the story, in which Hashmi is working hard to try and characterise and understand. This film will also star Konkona Sen Sharma and Kalki Koechlin.