By Subhash K Jha
Though last week John Abraham escaped a 15-day jail term within the nick of time when bail was granted to him minutes before the cut-off point, the actor has apparently pop out way more shaken and traumatized by the experience than he’s willing to let loose in public, or to even his old parents whom the actor desires to avoid the sordid details of the experience.
A close friend of the actor reveals that the entire experience of being bundled right into a 10x10 room on the sessions court as he awaited the elusive bail order, has left John with a way of maximum dread and anxiety.
Says John’s friend, “John who has not intentionally known a single day of illegality is totally shaken by the experience. He went during the whole day in court in a numbed state.
It was only after his ordeal ended on Friday evening that he realized how close he was to really going into jail. So as to add his sense of trauma, the very next morning after he escaped the jail term by a hair’s breadth John needed to play a normal God-fearing guy who’s thrown into jail for reasons he’s unable to know. ”
With stunning irony John faced the camera for Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout At Wadala the morning after bail, as a non-comprehending convict who arrives at Yerwada jail and is thrown into tiny dingy cell with 10-12 other prisons.
This is similar prison that John would allegedly has been taken too had his bail plea failed. The prison cell built for the film had no room for John’s character to sit down.
Says a source, “John was to go into the cell and stand in a corner in a numbed state. After the shot John said, ‘Is this really happening?’”
The shock of shooting a chain that he almost enacted in real life has taken its toll on John.
Says John’s buddy, “No doubt the entire experience has changed John’s life, because it would change anyone. However the undeniable fact that the very next morning after bail he shot a chain in located within the same jail where he would’ve been if his bail please was rejected, just blew John’s mind. ”
We hear the actor has withdrawn right into a shell. Seeing the dreadful directness of the sense of déjà vu that John experience director Gupta offered to cancel the shooting.
Says Gupta, “On Saturday morning it was the primary day of his shooting. I wasn’t sure John could be capable of undergo it, since he needed to play a personality who goes into jail not knowing what exactly his crime is. Yeah, if John have been denied bail he’d has been wearing the exact same uniform and possibly going into prison like his character. ”
Gupta shot the Yerwada sequences at a children’s remand home. “It was pretty scary and that i was seriously wondering how John would undergo it, ” says the director.
Uncannily Gupta had undergone the exact same touch-and-go experience as John on the same sessions court for anticipatory bail only some days before John.
“So I knew exactly what John was going though. No person who has not been in the course of the ordeal would know what it looks like. It’s just like the car crash I suffered in 2002. No person can understand the pain.
I rushed to fulfill John on the court. He was
being treated like several common convict until the bail was accepted. Then suddenly he became John The Star to the entire cops around. It was…. surreal. ”
John reached home from court late within the experience, numbed with the experience. The following morning at 7. 30 am he needed to report for shooting to enact a series that he escaped playing in his real life by a minuscule margin.
Says Gupta, “I won't ever forget the look on John’s face after I walked in (after great difficulty) to peer him within the room on the sessions court where he was confined.
It was the look of an innocent bewildered gentle animal trapped in a situation way beyond his comprehension or control. I’ve to shamefully admit that the look I saw on John’s face once I went to fulfill him within the room on the sessions court is what I WISHED from John the following morning.
It was the selfish director in me who forgot what John has passed through is precisely what I’ve been through. ”
