India, Jan. 8 -- Long before he was a household name, Emraan Hashmi was just a young man with a pair of earrings and a passport - a combination that seemed to set off alarm bells for immigration officers worldwide. At the recent trailer launch for his upcoming Netflix series, Taskaree: The Smuggler's Web, the actor took a trip down memory lane, reflecting on the days when his vacations felt more like the start of a crime thriller.

That brief panic when you pass security - even when you've done nothing wrong? Emraan expressed the feeling by comparing it to the rush of spotting a traffic cop while driving within the limit. He admitted that walking through the green channel - the lane for those with nothing to declare - often felt like a hi...