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John Abraham was born in Mumbai on December 17, 1972 and has lived there his whole life. As a young boy, he attended the Bombay Scottish School where he was always in the top fifteen of his class.
He was always in love with soccer and coached the Bombay Scottish soccer team for a while. John Abraham has always described himself as…
John Abraham was born in Mumbai on December 17, 1972 and has lived there his whole life. As a young boy, he attended the Bombay Scottish School where he was always in the top fifteen of his class.
He was always in love with soccer and coached the Bombay Scottish soccer team for a while. John Abraham has always described himself as an athlete. While in school, his specialty was the sprint. He specialized in the 100 and 200 meter dashes. Then while he was in college he took up Taekwondo, which allowed him to study with master Javed Khan.
While in college, Abraham BA honors in economics. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he went onto to his MMS from Mumbai Educational Trust. However, he would eventually drop out of the course.
It was while working as a media planner at a Mumbai ad agency, Enterprise-Nexus, that John Abraham received his first taste of modeling. One day a model ditched a shoot and Abraham’s boss asked him to fill in for the absent model.
Then in March of 1999 Abraham entered the Glad Rags Manhunt and reached the finals. He flew down to the Philippines and was the first runner up. After that, Abraham began his career as a model.
He was signed by Carrie Models in Singapore. This allowed him to travel all over the world on modeling assignments, such as Hong Kong, London, and New York. During this time, Abraham was also appearing in music videos. Eventually his modeling career sent him back to India and back to advertising.
But this time John Abraham was in a different role. The media planner had become the model. He first TV commercial was for Cinthol. He also became the first Asian model for Levis.
John Abraham never originally considered himself to be an actor. That was until he was offered a role on the big screen by Pritish Nandy. The project wound up being shelved but it opened a new door for Abraham.
He began to study films and actors to ensure that he would make it on the big screen. Abraham’s first starring role came on January 17, 2003 in the film ‘Jism.’ The role thrust Abraham into the spotlight and he starred in a slew of films.
Abraham describes his experience on the set ‘Dhoom’ as ‘the most fun I’ve had with my pants on.’ This was mostly due to the fact that he spent a large junk of his filming riding around on the Suzuki Hayabusa.
In 2005 his film ‘Water’ premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Abraham called this experience a ‘humbling event.’ John Abraham has consistently worked in films since his breakthrough in 2003 and shows no signs of slowing down. He is involved with eight film projects set to come out in 2009 and 2010.
John Abraham has been dating Bipasha Basu since 2002.
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Posted August 31st, 2009 09:08
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Posted June 05th, 2009 01:06
Check out these photos from Yash Raj's first release of the year 'New York'..
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Posted June 05th, 2009 00:06
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Posted June 03rd, 2009 22:06
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Posted April 30th, 2009 09:04
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Posted April 24th, 2009 08:04
Check out photos of John Abraham from the upcoming film "Hook Ya Crook".
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Posted March 21st, 2009 02:03
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Posted March 13th, 2009 09:03
Read more about why John Abraham is at fault for the delay of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's new film 'Chenab Gandhi'..
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Posted March 10th, 2009 08:03
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Posted March 04th, 2009 13:03
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Posted December 27th, 2008 09:12
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Check out our list for Bollywood's top 5 leading men of 2008..
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Posted December 22nd, 2008 13:12
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Posted December 12th, 2008 14:12
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Posted December 08th, 2008 10:12
Actor John Abraham and long with 'Upper Crust' magazine inaugurates food show.
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Posted December 04th, 2008 13:12
Comedic actor Govinda plans to hop on the six pack abs bandwagon..
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Posted December 01st, 2008 14:12
Filmmaker Karan Johar, actors Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham and fashion designer Manish Malhotra took part in launching Heroes AIDS Force in Mumbai..
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Posted December 01st, 2008 09:12
John Abraham makes an appearance at a Habitat for Humanity event..
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Posted November 19th, 2008 14:11
Fans were treated to some serious eye candy as sexy John Abraham strolled into Shoppers Stop mall in Andheri, Mumbai!.
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Posted November 19th, 2007 09:11
It seems like kids are more into Pepsi that Shahrukh or John these days! To watch what we are talking about click..
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Posted November 14th, 2008 23:11
Our DH! critic reviews 'Dostana'! Does the film live up to the hype of it's young, hot cast? Read to find out!.
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Posted August 15th, 2008 13:08
Watch the first trailer for the movie Dostana here.
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Posted August 04th, 2008 10:08
The unsaid cold war between Kareena Kapoor and John Abraham continues, with another twist to the tale. For all the details, click.
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Posted July 24th, 2008 10:07
Fun, sun and a bikini clad babe... we've got the first look of Priyanka Chopra's, Dostana. To see the pictures, click.
