John Abraham on his new film Rocky Handsome

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John Abraham on his new film Rocky Handsome. John Abraham and Nishikant Kamat speak about the making of Rocky Handsome. John Abraham tells us why Rocky Handsome is an emotional film and also shares why he dislikes award shows. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00I don't think we lack original content. In fact, his earlier two films as producer,

00:11Vicky Donor and Madras Cafe, both have been completely original and both have been fantastic

00:16films. I have done my share of original cinema also and adapted cinema also. So it is like,

00:22well, if someone does a departed, it is okay, right?

00:24I think you either make bad remakes from bad originals or you make bad remakes from

00:33good originals like you have seen off late or you make a better remake of a fantastic

00:37original.

00:43This film gives you the promise that it is offering you a lot in the trailer. It is giving

00:48you the promise that, you know, if you like the teaser and you like the trailer, you are

00:53going to enjoy this film. But like you said, to reiterate what you said, that it looks

00:58familiar but when you go in and see it and you walk out, you realise you have seen something

01:03better and that is why the two of us keep discussing and we say no disrespect meant

01:07to the teaser or the trailer but the film is far better than that.

01:14Yeah, so basically Nishi gave this title Rocky Handsome and I found a lot of consolation

01:21in it because Rocky IV impacted me when I saw it where Stallone fought with Dolph Lundgren,

01:27you know, in America versus Russia, the whole thing. And it really impacted me and I said,

01:31man, this man looks really cool and I need to be like that. And I think in my own way,

01:36in my own little way, this is my homage to, I had love for Stallone to see this film.

01:42This film was more of a, on a phone call rather than, it was not about selling a concept at

01:50all. It's because also we know each other for a long time and I said, you know, this

01:55will fall into place and everything and he was, yeah, readily on board like, okay, let's

02:00go all out with it. So, it was never about selling a concept. It was rather discussing

02:04that we should do this one.

02:07I met a little girl in the lift two days ago when I was coming here. And she said,

02:13John Abraham. So, when you know that the action is picked up by women, you know that they

02:21find it attractive. This action is not gory. It's not, you know, like, yeah, like you

02:27just close your eyes. It's action that's beautiful. It's poetry in motion. But at

02:34the same time, it also, you know, I said this even earlier to everybody and that's where

02:42Nishi comes in. It's that no action is complete without emotion and Rocky Hansen is a very,

02:47very emotional film.

02:53Because I think…

02:54Is it boring? Is it long?

02:55No, I watch the TV shows and it's great revenue for TV channels and where do you see

03:02in any of our awards where you see, and the nominees are, you see eight blocks and you

03:07see eight nominees sitting there. You only see one winner going for it and the rest of

03:11them will come there and dance. So, I really think if you really want to watch TV and want

03:17to have a great TV time, go and watch an award. I'm not saying the winners are not deserving

03:22which is why Nishi should go and pick up all the awards for Rocky Hansen. But I think you

03:27can exclude me from it.

03:32I think you can exclude me from it.

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