John Abraham’s career as an actor-producer has just taken a steep climb. After playing the plain-clothed action cop in Nishikant Kamath’s Force John is ready to get right into a full-on action mode in a buddy-buddy Mumbai cop film called Kala Ghoda where the action would take John many notches higher and on way more dangerous ground than Force.
The story can be set during one night when any and everything that might get it wrong in Mumbai’s underbelly, does get it wrong. The action, we're told, wouldn't be staged. It'd be real action with real punches and bullets.
The film that goes at the floors on the end of the year can be shot in real time and on actual locations.It would involve situations that come straight out of the record books of real-life police stations.
Speaking at the project director Aditya Bhattacharya whose Raakh 33 years ago was a game-changer that launched Aamir Khan’s career as a number one man, says, “It’s the tale of 2 cops, one hard-nosed no-nonsense and volatile played by John and the other a goofy ineffectual bumbling cop, played by Kunaal Roy Kapoor (of Delhi Belly fame) who come together under trying circumstances for one night of relentless action in Mumbai.”
Aditya who's the legendary Bimal Roy’s grandson and the avant-garde director Basu Bhattacharya’s son, was reluctant to get into the project.
Says Aditya, “Kala Ghoda is a authentic cops film. And my catchline for the film can be ‘No Gun No Fun’. I USED TO BE a little bit hesitant. It was John’s exuberance and effort level that convinced me. His homework for the role is incredible.
I come from a sensibility different from the archetypal ‘Bollywood’ cinema.I felt John and that i coming together to do a movie can be as odd as John and Kunal Roy Kapoor’s characters in Kala Ghoda coming together.
But John’s dedication to the film has convinced me that ‘Bollyood’ now not exists. This is a frame of mind where the walls have dissolved and a misfit like me has a spot here.”
Kala Ghoda can be shot in a single schedule of 20-25 days with out a songs, no item songs, no breaks for popcorn and the loo.
John who will produce the film has conceived it as a low-budget gritty independent film meant for a particular target-audience
John if truth be told have been secretly preparing for the role alongside his role of the real-life gangster in Sanjay Gupta’s Shootout At Wadala.
