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 Bollywood's latest pinup boy John Abraham , who has brought out a calendar of his own images for 2007, denies that he is making a conscious effort to market a "cool image". "Let me state once and for all, I've done nothing to consciously project a cool image. Whether it's the motorbikes or brand endorsements, I do what comes naturally to me," John told IANS. "I feel there's an overt attempt to portray oneself as cool in our industry. But to try to be cool is very un-cool. If there's a cool-quotient to your personality, it will show up without your trying," he added. John said the calendar was a no-profit venture. "Whether it's my own brand of clothes or me serving as a brand ambassador for a mo-bike, I guess I've been forging my own style of self-projection. The calendar is an idea that, to my knowledge, hasn't been done by any other actor. It'll contain only my images. Does that seem slightly narcissistic? "It is actually nothing more than a humble exercise in public relations. The calendar with my pictures shot by Subi Samuel will be sent to people whom I know and would like to reach out to at the beginning of the year. It's a no-profit venture," stressed John. Does John belong to the cool-school? "When I was doing an endorsement for my clothesline, someone said, 'cool is John Abraham'. It's interesting. But they would look at the clothes and say, 'this is very John Abraham'. I felt flattered. When you get branded with a certain image that defines your cool-quotient, I think it's very cool." To John cool is..."the movies that you do, the clothes you wear or not wear and the company you keep". John is good at both the dressed and undressed variety of cool. "Good, na? Because sometimes you may not get the proper designer! Might as well be prepared to make do without the right clothes," he quipped. source:glamsham Related StoriesAfter-playing-football,-John-set-to-climb-mountains  Actor John Abraham has decided to reposition himself as a fun-loving and sporty entertainer. After doing the football flick Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal with director Vivek Agnihotri, the actor will now feature in a film on mountain climbing to be directed by Soham Shah. "I want to cultivate a sporty image after Goal. Hence, I'm also doing a film on mountain climbing. I'm a trained footballer, I used to play 'A' position soccer and I'm a certified climber," John told. "I was into sports more Smokers-should-definately-watch-No-Smoking,-says-John  Actor John Abraham is going the whole nine yards to promote his upcoming release No Smoking. So much so that he's even urging people to quit smoking. CNN-IBN gets you more on that. Rohit Khilnani: It’s films people understand best. John Abraham: A lot of people have asked me if No Smoking is an art film because Anurag Kashyap has done a lot of films like that. I would say that it’s a very commercial film. Rohit Khilnani: Are you hoping that guys and girls who s more JOHN-ABRAHAM-LAUNCHES-SONY-BMGS--KOI-AANAY-WALA--HAI-BY-STRINGS    Actor John Abraham launched SONY BMG's brand new album KOI AANAY WALA HAI by Pakistani Rock Band STRINGS SONY BMG & John Abraham Entertainment have joined hands to present this album. In a first of its kind, never seen before avatar, model turned actor John Abraham, not only features in a music video for the lead song – Koi Aanay Wala Hai, but is also an integral part of the project. more A-new-side-to-John---a-committed-social-worker  Everyone knows him as a first-rate model, an evolving actor and a youth icon. But there is more to John Abraham, who turned 35 Monday. He is deeply involved in social work and wants more youngsters to join his Habitat for Humanity brigade. "I keep a break between my films and during those breaks I work for social causes I address. I love animals and I work for PETA. I have my own brigade called John' brigade for Habitat For Humanity," John said. "This year, we have built 5,000 hous more John-supports-Jahnvi-in-AIDS-awareness On a Sunday evening, John Abraham took some time out from his schedule on to help create AIDS awareness. 29 yr old Jahnvi Goswami is HIV positive and since past 11 years, she has been working to create awareness about the disease in North East India. She is a big fan of John Abraham and when he agreed to join the campaign, she was more than happy. John said we might be heroes in films but people like Jahnvi are the heroes in real life. John was completely relaxed during the event and made everyone around have a good time. There were discussions about safe sex, to create awareness among teenagers and also dance performances to send out the message. John Abraham’s upcoming releases include Ravi Chopra’s Baabul and Nikhil more Mark-calendar-for-date-with-John In a self-confessed exercise in self-promotion, model-turned-Bollywood actor John Abraham plans to send a select set of people a pinup calendar of himself, a newspaper reported on Friday. The star described the calendar as “a humble exercise in public relations”. “It will contain images only of me,” Abraham told Mumbai Mirror. “Does that seem slightly narcissistic?” Abraham said he had no plans to sell the calendar, but would send it to “people whom I know and would like to reach out to at the beginning of the year”. Abraham did not identify the lucky few. John has starred in several blockbuster movies since he struck fame in the 2004 hit Dhoom. In his latest film, Kabul Exp more Neil-can’t-stop-raving-about-John-Abraham  Neil Nitin Mukesh is back from a long shooting stint in the USA for his Yash Raj project, New York being directed by Kabir Khan of kabul Express fame. His co-star in the film John Abraham has left him so mightily impressed that Nitin just can’t stop raving about him to whoever he meets. The Johnny Gaddar actor told us, “John Abraham is a wonderful human being and a great co-star to work with. I was shooting Freeze with Bipasha and from her aswell I had heard a lot about him. While shooting with him I have realised John more John-Abraham-Says-No-Smoking The sexy guy and the style icon John Abraham is who the youth follows him hugely. Whatever this chic lad does, the youth fastens the belts to do the same. Now this stylish hunk will appear in a movie that is targeted at anti-smoking message. Well, the whole saga is that Vishal Bhardwaj in association with Kumar Mangat (who also happens to be the co-producer of Vishal’s forthcoming project ‘Omkara’) is going to make a flick titled ‘No Smoking’ where John Abraham will be playing the leading guy. The rest of the cast is yet to be finalized since Vishal is busy with the releasing formalities of his ready to hit screens film ‘Omkara’ that will make appearance in theaters on July 28th. ‘No Smoking’ will give the a more John-loses-16-kgs-for-Nagesh-Kukunoors-Aashayein  By doing films like No Smoking and Taxi No 9211, Bollywood actor John Abraham has certainly made it very clear that he's not in Bollywood to run around trees and vroom his way to the number one spot. The actor has now gone a step further by losing around 16 kgs of weight for Nagesh Kukunoor's Aashayein. In the film John plays, Rahul Sharma, a compulsive gambler, who on his bet of his life loses everything and goes through a very rough patch emotionally. Which is why Nagesh wanted John to s more John-Abraham-in-Abbas-Tyrewalas-next  See after Imraan Khan, who is next fortunate actor to bag a well written role from the writer/director Abbas Tyrewala. Its John Abraham turn to be play a character which in all probabilities will turn out to be the best role that John has done so far. The name of the film '1-800-Love' is inspired from the toll-free help lines in the U.S.A. As soon as John Abraham heard the story of the new movie, he got so exited that he agreed not only to act in it but also to co-produce. Written by Pa more |
