John Abraham To Play A Real Life Character In His Upcoming Film
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By Lubhna Seal - July 9, 2019 Seeing the alluring John Abraham on screen is always a delight but his recent choice of film is much awaited for, because of him playing a real life character. The film is based on a real life incident of national interest. Operation Batla House that took place in 2008 , Sanjeev Kumar Yadav played an integral role in the same. The actor is to play Sanjeev Kumar in his film. Playing a real life character who is still serving makes the role even more exciting, this is what John had to say on the same, “The responsibility is even bigger as this is the first time I am playing someone who is still serving. If he (Sanjeev Kumar) thinks I am not good enough, he can shoot me (laughs!). So, I better be good at portraying him in the film.” It was a challenging role and John put in extra efforts to deliver his role effectively. He said, “I spent a lot of time with Sanjeev and his wife Shobhna to understand his mindset, body language, the way he sits, stands, talks, reacts to situations and what he went through. I had a million questions for him.” Since there are different perpectives about the incident , John says, “Batla House is not anti or pro any community or political establishment. It’s a story of this man’s life and what he went through. To put it in simple words, it’s a story of one man’s life. I am aware that there will be conflicting views even if you stick to facts as closely as possible. However, the idea is to build a conversation and I hope we have done that with this film. One way of looking at it is to show different perspectives to the story and the other is to make the audience think and give them a reason for constructive argument.” | |||||
