Bollywood actor John Abraham, who plays the villain in the blockbuster hit Pathaan, couldn’t stop smiling during the lead actors and director’s first media interaction.
“Pathaan is going to be his biggest hit for a long time,” he says. “I thought I was the action hero, but Shah Rukh is the number one action hero in the country today,” John says.
John said, expressing his gratitude to director Siddharth Anand, “I would like to thank (Yash Raj Films head) Aditya Chopra for the way he has positioned me in Dhoom, New York, and Pathaan. And my director, Sid, you are the hero of the film,”
“I’m surprised why he didn’t become an action star before.” “He is so confident and flexible,” John says. “During the shoot, I was scared to hit as “He’s a national treasure!”
The two actors may have been dead against each other in the film, but in real life, they are buddies.
He further said that “I got to work with Shah Rukh for the first time. I don’t think he is an actor anymore; he is an emotion. Maybe that is why I nearly went to kiss him in a lot of scenes!”
Shah Rukh says that John is a “very, very old friend” and they got to know each other when he came to Mumbai. But they did not get a chance to work together until Pathaan happened.
“We had only worked together on endorsements. I realised to work with John, I had to build my body,” SRK acknowledges.
SRK praised his co-star, calling him the “backbone” of Pathaan and saying that John was very gentle during the action scenes.
Pathaan is John Abraham’s third collaboration with Yash Raj Films, following Dhoom in 2004 and New York in 2009. The actor’s career has been transformed by all three films.
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