Bollywood hunk John Abraham on matters close to his heart - his much talked about breakup, marriage, the importance of BO success and his 'sexy bachelor' tag
After Dostana and New York, you chose to do some meaningful cinema that did not exactly give your career a high. Do you regret doing those films?
We all do films when we get excited about. I connected with No Smoking, Aashayein, Kabul Express, Jhoota Hi Sahi and Saat Khoon Maaf. I do one film a year because I am financially in a secure state and don't need to do dhinchaak films. My friends in the trade have often advised me that I should stick to doing Dostana or Garam Masala kind of films and I will be commercially more successful. However, I realize that after being in the industry for 20 years I realize that I am not cut out for item numbers or dancing. Even if you ask me today, I would like to do a No Smoking Part 2. You might say that I am in a professionally crazy space, but I am happy with that!
But with film revenues crossing the 100 crore mark and actors wanting their movies to be 'paisa vasool', how will you justify your choices?
Yes, that's why I am justifying it with Nishikant Kamat's Force. It's a remake of a Tamil film and in the same genre as Dabangg, Ghajini and the like. You never really know what works in Bollywood. The audiences go to watch a film, come out and say 'it is a bad film.' But the promotional activity lures the audience to at least go to the theatre and call that film 'bad.' I don't want to be in that space where a person goes to the movie theatre and calls my film 'crap'. It does not gratify me as an actor. But having said that, I have been told that my films suffered earlier because I did not promote them well. So I am following others in the promotion game! To justify myself further, I am doing all commercially hit formula films like I, Me aur Main, Shootout At Wadala, Race 2, Housefull 2, Desi Boyz...
There is a dearth of good male models on the ramp.
After 2002 (I bid adieu to ramp modeling then) and before me there was Arjun Rampal, Milind Soman, Dino Morea and Deepak Malhotra. There is no space for male models because all showstoppers for fashion designers are done by actors and even commercials are dominated by actors. Bollywood actors have stepped in their shoes leaving no space for male models to earn their bread. Maureen Wadia has often remarked that when will we see another John Abraham on the ramp? One needs to get an educated supermodel to talk about this.
Your relationship with Bipasha seems to be the only thing people are talking about? You have also been vocal about your marriage plans. Comment.
I am pushed again and again to comment on my relationships. Wherever I go that is the only thing that pops up. I am not apologetic about my belief in the institution of marriage. That has nothing to do with why I did not get married earlier. I have spoken about Bipasha and our breakup only once on a television show. Now if people watch that show multiple times and say I only talk about her, then it's their mistake.
You are known to have a great looking posterior. You strutted your stuff in Dostana and went nude in New York. How do you take the comment that you possess the best butt in the Hindi film industry?
Ha ha, I am not apologetic about my butt either. (laughs). If you have the best looking butt in the industry then you need to show it off because cinema is a visual medium. I remember a time when I joined films and people around me, made me feel apologetic about strutting your stuff. Today everyone is doing it. Now you get all these cool quotients for it as well - like 'sexiest butt' and 'sexiest bachelor'. In the industry you never know when you will be complimented for the very thing you were first criticized for!
After Dostana and New York, you chose to do some meaningful cinema that did not exactly give your career a high. Do you regret doing those films?
We all do films when we get excited about. I connected with No Smoking, Aashayein, Kabul Express, Jhoota Hi Sahi and Saat Khoon Maaf. I do one film a year because I am financially in a secure state and don't need to do dhinchaak films. My friends in the trade have often advised me that I should stick to doing Dostana or Garam Masala kind of films and I will be commercially more successful. However, I realize that after being in the industry for 20 years I realize that I am not cut out for item numbers or dancing. Even if you ask me today, I would like to do a No Smoking Part 2. You might say that I am in a professionally crazy space, but I am happy with that!
But with film revenues crossing the 100 crore mark and actors wanting their movies to be 'paisa vasool', how will you justify your choices?
Yes, that's why I am justifying it with Nishikant Kamat's Force. It's a remake of a Tamil film and in the same genre as Dabangg, Ghajini and the like. You never really know what works in Bollywood. The audiences go to watch a film, come out and say 'it is a bad film.' But the promotional activity lures the audience to at least go to the theatre and call that film 'bad.' I don't want to be in that space where a person goes to the movie theatre and calls my film 'crap'. It does not gratify me as an actor. But having said that, I have been told that my films suffered earlier because I did not promote them well. So I am following others in the promotion game! To justify myself further, I am doing all commercially hit formula films like I, Me aur Main, Shootout At Wadala, Race 2, Housefull 2, Desi Boyz...
There is a dearth of good male models on the ramp.
After 2002 (I bid adieu to ramp modeling then) and before me there was Arjun Rampal, Milind Soman, Dino Morea and Deepak Malhotra. There is no space for male models because all showstoppers for fashion designers are done by actors and even commercials are dominated by actors. Bollywood actors have stepped in their shoes leaving no space for male models to earn their bread. Maureen Wadia has often remarked that when will we see another John Abraham on the ramp? One needs to get an educated supermodel to talk about this.
Your relationship with Bipasha seems to be the only thing people are talking about? You have also been vocal about your marriage plans. Comment.
I am pushed again and again to comment on my relationships. Wherever I go that is the only thing that pops up. I am not apologetic about my belief in the institution of marriage. That has nothing to do with why I did not get married earlier. I have spoken about Bipasha and our breakup only once on a television show. Now if people watch that show multiple times and say I only talk about her, then it's their mistake.
You are known to have a great looking posterior. You strutted your stuff in Dostana and went nude in New York. How do you take the comment that you possess the best butt in the Hindi film industry?
Ha ha, I am not apologetic about my butt either. (laughs). If you have the best looking butt in the industry then you need to show it off because cinema is a visual medium. I remember a time when I joined films and people around me, made me feel apologetic about strutting your stuff. Today everyone is doing it. Now you get all these cool quotients for it as well - like 'sexiest butt' and 'sexiest bachelor'. In the industry you never know when you will be complimented for the very thing you were first criticized for!
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