John Abraham-Biography

After making his film debut with Jism (2003) John Abraham received a Filmfare Best Debut Award nomination. This was followed by his first commercial success, Dhoom (2004).




John Abraham received two Filmfare nominations, for his negative roles in Dhoom, and then in Zinda (2006). Later on the actor appeared in the major critical success, Water (2005). In 2007, he was nominated under the category of Best Supporting Actor at Filmfare for the movie Baabul.

Actor started his career with the media firm Time and Space Media Entertainment Promotions Ltd. John Abraham's 2003 movie Jism which was a thriller became a moderate box office success and his performance was recognised by critics. The film also had Bipasha Basu.

Later the same year came the paranormal thriller Saaya (2003), which was a commercial and critical failure. It was followed by a number of failures, including Pooja Bhatt's directorial debut Paap (2004) and Ahmed Khan's Lakeer (2004).

After having appeared in these films, Abraham was signed for a negative role in Dhoom in 2004, an action film produced byy Yash Raj Films. In 2005 he starred in the supernatural thriller Kaal and the comedy Garam Masala both of which did well at the box office.

In summer of 2006, he starred in the films Zinda, Taxi No 9211, Baabul and Kabul Express. Among these Taxi No 9211 and Kabul Express were substantially successful.

Nikhil Advani's multi-starrer Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute To Love was Abraham's first release in 2007. The movie failed to do well at the Indian box office. John's last two 2007 releases included the arthouse thriller No Smoking and the sports film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal.

In 2008, Abraham starred alongside Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra in Dostana, his only release that year. Produced by Karan Johar, the film performed moderately well at the box office.

His first release of 2009 was another much awaited production by Yash Raj Films, New York. Other than these his 2009 new projects includes Aashayein which has been completed, Hook Ya Crook is still filming. His 2010 ventures are Alibaba Aur 41 Chor, Film City and 1-800-Love.