John gives gyaan on making it big in the ad world

John Abraham's acting career is making a mark but the actor returned to his first profession for a social cause.


John got on stage to promote an advertising contest for social awareness called the Concerned Communicator award. A former ad man himself, here's what John thinks is the sure shot way to the award.


“I think humour. If you can get the ad across through humor I think that's the one. People love laughing all the time. It has to be effective and the message has to come across and make you think,” says John.


Other celebrities like Anupam Kher and Shabana Azmi are also promoting the contest along with John.


And if you are wondering why John left advertising for acting, then here’s the explanation. “Media planning was all about backstage job. The heroes used to be the creative people and the media planner used to work from 9 am to 4 in the morning, that’s all we used to do," he said.


That’s John for you, spoken like a true actor, who prefers to shine in front of the camera than behind it.


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My brother didn’t lend me his bike. That was when I decided that I should have a bike of my own. It should reflect me, the power and the sport. That was when I decided it should be a Yamaha.

This was John Abraham in his very first TV ad for Yamaha, a brand that he endorsed for the past few years. Not any longer. John Abraham and Yamaha have recently parted ways, though its remains unclear who dumped whom.

“John has told Yamaha that he wouldn’t renew the contract for the brand promotion as the company doesn’t have the right product to match the actor’s macho personality,” according to a source close to Mr Abraham.

Yamaha Motor India, which is set to roll out two of its global hot sellers-the 1,000 cc YZF-R1 and 1,670 cc MT-01-later this year also confirmed that the contract with Abraham has come to an end and that the company is not going to renew it. “For the time being we are not renewing the contract with John Abraham,” said a company official.

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It might be tough to realize but looks like it is all over between John Abraham and Bipasha Basu. Timesnow quoted Rocky S, Bipasha’s designer friend, saying the lady declared, “I am single for the first time in ten years.”


First it was rumors of John having flings with his co-stars and then it was Bipasha’s friendship with Saif Ali Khan that got the media talking too much about the rift between the couple. After Bipasha’s smooch with the famous sports person Ronaldo, media went berserk about the split rumors. Looks like, finally the media has been successful in splitting the couple.

But we wish the Bollywood’s hottest couple would get back strong enough to burry the media speculation forever.

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Is John Abraham the Prince of Persia?

www.johnabraham.com has been getting nearly seven million hits per month and John is the only actor in Bollywood whose has got 1,750 pages devoted to him on web. One of his big time fan has suggested him to get into the character of the famous game character Prince of Persia, which is being made into a motion picture now by Michael Bay.
The film will be produced by Walt Disney and is all set to release in the summer of 2009. A few months back, UK-based fan Venetia Sarll posted sketches of the actor posing as the Prince of Persia and kept demanding that all the John fans should start an online campaign to appeal for John being taken as the hero.
For those not familiar with the game, Prince of Persia follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
It’s set in medieval Persia, Earth’s mightiest and most mysterious kingdom. It received numerous Game of the Year awards and has become a best-selling title.