We arrive at a suburban five–star on a hot Wednesday afternoon to meet Emraan Hashmi and Mohammad Azharuddin for the actor's upcoming film, 'Azhar'. It's for the first time that the cricketer is promoting a film and is visibly cheerful when he sits down to give media interviews after a long gap. We couldn't help but notice the trademark raised collar still intact. Excerpts from the their interview with hitlist:

Q. You took over a year to say yes to a film based on your life. And now that the trailer has already released, what do you think of it?
Azhar: You never think about your life being replicated on screen. So naturally it's a different feeling. But I think Emraan bhai has done really well. He has worked very hard, trained and read a lot of paper clippings and is extremely professional. I like his approach towards work. He even hurt himself while training for the cricket portions and you have to make those sacrifices when you know you have to deliver. From whatever I have seen so far, it looks good.

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