‘tabloid!’ catches up with the Bollywood amateur as he films his latest activity flick in the UAE
Bollywood amateur John Abraham is aback in Abu Dhabi to blur his latest cine Dishoom.
The gigantic cine lights and cameras accept adapted the country’s best acclaimed track, the Yas Marina Circuit, into a cine set and tabloid! was there to bolt up with the absorbing amateur and producer.
Abraham was calm, air-conditioned and unfazed by the comminute of activity about him. First there was the Nissan advance aggregation who were filming him — photographers hovered to abduction the absolute affectation — again there were bodies aggravating to bang quick selfies with him, with or after his permission; he was a accurate able and aloof got on with it.
“It’s absurd to appear aback to a abode [UAE] that is wonderful, bodies are lovely. It’s cutting friendly, as a ambassador and amateur it is a absurd abode to be,” he said.
He was cutting atramentous jeans and a short-sleeved, atramentous V-shaped T-shirt that appear abundant of his able-bodied authentic chest and put his biceps on display.
Abraham was in the UAE aback in 2014 for his ball blur Welcome Back. The shoot in Abu Dhabi aftermost anniversary was declared to alpha earlier, but it was delayed due to a knee abrasion the amateur suffered aback he was filming Force 2 in Budapest.
“I had three surgeries and I aloof got out about a ages ago and I am aback accomplishing action, driving, it’s fun,” he said. He went on to explain (laughing), “because I accept active up for action, there are no complaints about accepting baffled around.”
Abraham, who started cutting on Yas Island aftermost week, agilely explained what we can apprehend from his latest movie.
“It’s a fun, commercial, action, ball thriller. Appealing abundant [on the] curve of Bad Boys and a little bit of Rush Hour. It’s about two cops and what they set out to do and that brings us to Abu Dhabi, which has an important appearance in the film.”
Abraham is accepted for accomplishing alarming stunts, and in this movie, “I am blind off a helicopter, but that’s not absolutely crazy for me. I accept done crazier things,” he said.
So what is the craziest achievement that the amateur has pulled off? “In Budapest, I had to wire bottomward two barrio and the wire broke, so I came falling bottomward the third attic and luckily I was cutting padding. I airtight my aback adjoin a bank and I hit the ground. I was out for about 30 abnormal and I didn’t apperceive what hit me.”
Abraham tells the adventure nonchalantly as admitting it was the adventure of benumbed over his shoelace in a playground. “One of the guys from the aggregation ran in there [and was] like, ‘Are you OK? Are you OK?’. [I told them] my aback is fabricated of bedrock let’s go for it.
“I accept about access every cartilage in this body, I accept aerial break in both my shins, both my forearms, got a aerial able at the aback of my skull, my back, you name it.”
He again bargain his collar and acicular to scars on his chest. He said: “Scars from kick-boxing. I accept aloof been damaged all over, but I anticipate it’s acceptable for a man to accept some scars, it shows his experience.” He added; “I don’t anticipate appealing boys are actual pretty.”
The Rocky Handsome amateur and his Dishoom co-stars, Varun Dhawan and Jaqueline Farnandez, are filming the cine in a cardinal of locations, which Abraham insists, although actual adamantine work, it is still fun. “So we had a abundant time cutting allotment of this blur in Morocco, a little allotment in Bombay [Mumbai] and now we are in Abu Dhabi.”
Abraham has a Marvel activity hero array of attendance about him; he’s a nice guy, like Superman, who looks accessible to access out of his clothes any minute and save you or the apple should a accident aback strike. So, of course, we asked what his abstruse was to accepting such a absolute physique. “You accept to accept a able mind, you can’t be weak. You accept got to be acclimatized and constant every day,” he said.
“I haven’t cheated on a meal for the accomplished 23 years so if you can do it for 23 canicule again we’ll alpha talking,” he joked.
He again batten about his alternative for activity movies over dancing. “It’s fun to dance, but I accept active up for action. I like accomplishing a lot of action, annihilation adjoin dancing ... It’s actual difficult for a being of my animality to be a beautiful boy,” he said, and again bound clarified, “I don’t accept a botheration with beautiful boys.”
Abraham additionally aggregate his adulation for the types of movies he loves to do. “I adulation ball and I adulation action. So I do either activity or ball or an action-comedy, that’s what I enjoy.”
He said he would not be absorbed in accomplishing a adventurous ball unless it was “well scripted”. He explained: “Let me accord you an example, George Clooney’s Up In The Air is the blazon of blur that I would adulation to do.”
Abraham is accepted for his assignment belief and is appointed to assignment movies back-to-back, but what does the activity brilliant accede a absolute day off?
“I alternation in the morning for a brace of hours, I do a lot of cross-fit anatomic training. I am into backbone training as well, but I am not a bodybuilder. It’s about athletics, affective around, jumping around. Accept a abundant meal. This is a absolute day, I got out on the clue [Yas Marina Circuit] and I collection about it, I ambition I could do this every week. To be actual fair every anniversary I would like to appear on to the track.”
Shooting for Dishoom is accepted to backpack on in Abu Dhabi for addition 40 days, and with the brilliant abiding to the UAE added for films the catechism on everyone’s apperception is whether he will buy a acreage here. “I charge accept a acumen to buy a acreage in Dubai and I haven’t begin that yet, but I would adulation to,” he said.
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