Actor-producer John Abraham is experimenting with his looks in 1911, a sports biopic on footballer Sibdas Bhaduri, where he will be seen in a leaner avatar.
The 41-year-old football enthusiast, who is currently 92kg, will transform himself to play the former skipper of Indian club Mohun Bagan in the Shoojit Sircar-directed period drama.
“I have no release this year. I am choosing my projects carefully and experimenting with my looks. Each role requires a lot of method and I need time to adapt. I am playing a footballer in 1911 and for the film, I have to reduce my weight to 75kg by mid next year after ending a film. Now, I weigh 92. I have to work hard on my body,” Abraham said.
Apart from 1911, Abraham will also be seen sporting three different looks in Sanjay Gupta’s Mumbai Saga.
“Sanjay is very experimental with his films and looks. This is the third time I am teaming up with him after Zinda and Shootout at Wadala,” said Abraham, who was in New Delhi for a saloon launch.
Experimenting with looks
“Shooting for Mumbai Saga will start from November. In the film, I will be seen in three different looks as it shows three stages in a person’s life. It is one of the most breathtaking scripts I have read in a long time,” Abraham said.
Abraham admits that it is physically taxing for an actor to go through weight changes for films. “It affects your body immensely. But I am a bit lucky because I am an ectomorph. I have a tendency to lose weight. I just need to get into a proper diet,” he said.
The Madras Cafe star has wrapped up shooting his multi-starrer comic venture Welcome Back, a sequel to the hit 2007 film Welcome that starred Akshay Kumar in the lead.
“Akshay is a good friend and brilliant actor. We worked together in many films. I enjoy watching his films and I liked Welcome too. Shooting for Welcome Back was fun as well as a learning experience. It has an ensemble starcast of Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal and Nana Patekar among others. It was good to work with such senior actors,” he said.
Abraham, who is often touted as a style icon, said physical fitness is important to look good.
“Gym is like a religion to me. I go to gym the way people go to church. When I was growing up, there were no actors whom I could look up to because they were larger than life. When I decided to become an actor, I wanted to be stylish and concentrate on my fitness first,” he said.
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