Emraan Hashmi: five Super Hits, and the most consistent mid-budget record here

Tiger 3 at ₹260.33 crore is far and away the biggest figure and it belongs to somebody else's franchise. Strip it out and the record is exactly what it appears to be: The Dirty Picture at ₹77.55 crore, Raaz 3 at ₹71.20 crore, Baadshaho, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Murder 2 — mid-budget films returning mid-sized numbers, reliably, for a decade.

Five Super Hits and a Hit is the entire success column, against sixteen disasters and fourteen flops. That distribution — nothing at the top, a solid tier just below it, and a long tail of failure — is unusual on this list. Six other actors here have never had a Blockbuster either, but the largest of those filmographies is twenty-six films. His is forty-five.

The ratings have improved as the career has aged, which is the reverse of nearly everyone else in this section. His best-reviewed film, Haq at 7.8, is from 2025 and is his nineteenth-biggest earner. Shanghai at 7.2 and Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai at 7.4 follow. The floor, Mr. X at 3.7, is comparatively high — very little here is genuinely unwatchable, and very little is exceptional.

Mohit Suri's five define the sound and the shape of the peak years; Kunal Deshmukh and Milan Luthria took three each. Between three directors, eleven films — a tighter core than most careers twice this length manage.