Emraan Hashmi has always known in the film industry for his romantic personality and started the trend of onscreen kissing in Bollywood. He is also known as the serial kisser in the industry. But ofscreen he is a gentleman and fulfills all the duties of a good father and mother. He is a loyal cousin too.
According to the 2016 India TV reports the rumours of him that he was offered a film alongside Alia Bhatt which was a rom com movie featuring Alia Bhatt but he avoided doing that. You wanna know why? The reason behind this was it was a rom-com movie and he didn't want to romanticize a movie with Alia Bhatt. Still are you in a question mark why he said no to it. Well Alia Bhatt and Emraan are cousins and he thought that it could be not easy for them to romance in the movie just for the directors outlook. They have their own life and partners.
According to the report, Emraan Hashmi was not unhappy with the director. He stated that he was shocked as to how someone would pair or even think about the concept of casting them together as main leads he was very angry on the director.
Emraan Hashmi in one of the interviews said that he would love to work with Alia Bhatt, but he would not share a romantic gesture with her cousin onscreen. He said “I can only work with her as a brother… Any other thing would make me sick. I can’t romance my cousin and I don’t think anyone has done that; it would be awkward”.