Editor jitesh pillaai talks about John Abraham

John Abraham is on our cover this time and boy, doesn't he look dishy? When John first burst on to the screen with Jism (2003), people dismissed him as another himbo at best, a model type all set to be part of the furniture at worst. He was a rank outsider with no sugar daddy to call the shots for him at a time when industry kids were falling from the skies like July rains. A huge bias against models, both within the industry and public perception didn't help either. What he had was a desire to make it big " he was a rank outsider to the modelling world too but the MBA grad made it big there through sheer grit. He also had an emotional anchor in the form of then girlfriend Bipasha Basu, who supported him all the way.


His big break came with Dhoom (2004), where his antics as the bike riding uber cool villain got him noticed by the masses. His anti-hero roles in Zinda (2006) and Taxi No 9211 (2006) were much loved. The year 2006 can be said to be the watershed year for him, as it got him his most dramatic role yet " playing a hard-core journalist in Kabir Khan's hard hitting Kabul Express. In 2008, he changed tracks and acted alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra in the raunchy comedy Dostana, where Abhishek and he pretended to be a gay couple. Desi Boyz (2011) and Housefull (2012), further enhanced his comic credentials.


He started venturing out as a producer at this point, coming out with the hugely successful Vicky Donor (2012), directed by Shoojit Sircar and launching Ayushmann Khurrana's career. Madras Cafe (2013), his next collaboration with Sircar, wasn't commercially successful but won critical acclaim.


He also has a clothing line, a stake in a football team and is known for his love for power bikes. There are talks he might soon own a super bike franchise as well. In 2014, the actor got married to Priya Runchal, a US based investment banker he had been seeing since 2010. There were reports there was a rift in the relationship, though he has denied them strongly.
The handsome hunk is coming out with another action thriller, Rocky Handsome and there are films like Hera Pheri 3 and Force 2 on the cards as well. A couple of productions like Satra Ko Shaadi Hai and Agra Ka Daabra are on the cards as well. Looks like he's all set for a rocking 2016...