Be it Murder or Aashiq Banaya Aapne, films in Emraan Hashmi's early days in Bollywood saw him lock lips in multiple films. This led him to get the 'serial kisser' tag, which he says became a hindrance in his career after a certain time.

"I got many hit films in my career because of the so-called tag. I won't lie... I agree that I got a fair bit of acceptance from it. There were films which required such scenes and I did them.