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Published 15:21 IST, February 6th 2020

Emraan Hashmi knocks the deadly cop avatar out of the park in Sanjay Gupta's 'Mumbai Saga'

'Mumbai Saga' is a gangster drama set in the 1980s and 1990s that revolves around the city's struggle with development along with the underground mafias.

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Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi has a record of dishing out powerful performances in every film that he has been a part of. From among the many films that are due to release this year, Sanjay Gupta's upcoming film Mumbai Saga is highly anticipated for its portrayal of the rise of the concrete jungle that is Mumbai today along with the undertones of the gangsters of Mumbai.

After unveiling the look for actor John Abraham's character earlier last month, director Sanjay Gupta took to his Twitter account and shared the first look of actor Emraan Hashmi who will be essaying the role of a cop in his upcoming film. He wrote, "Everyone on team MUMBAI SAGA was anxious about how @emraanhashmi would pull off the deadly cop’s look. Just look with what style he has pulled it off."

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About the film

The Sanjay Gupta directorial is a crime action thriller that tells the story of the changing face of Mumbai. With actors John Abraham, Emraan Hashmi, Kajal Aggarwal, Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, Prateik Babbar, Gulshan Grover, Rohit Roy, Samir Soni, and Amole Gupte, Mumbai Saga deal with how in the eighties and the nineties mills were closed to make malls and high rise buildings. The movie began filming in August last year and is scheduled to release on June 19, 2020.

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15:21 IST, February 6th 2020