Rumor Has it

It is a known fact that girls spend too much time waiting for a boy to call them. Checking your phone every five seconds, making sure you don't lose service and then making up excuses when he does not call. He must have lost my number and is desperately trying to find it as we speak. Now imagine you are not waiting for just any boy to call, you are waiting for THE boy to call. On Monday January 13, 2008 the longest wait in my twenty five years of life began. Anxiously waiting for the one and only boy for me, John Abraham!

Three years of loving him and after a few months of waiting I finally managed to land a phone interview with my man. So what's thirty more minutes right? It is now midnight, the moment between yesterday and tomorrow when I received the first message saying the call will happen in thirty minutes. Screaming at the top of my lungs, I run to my room to prepare, but not before assuring my poor father that there were no robbers, wild animals, or heart attacks provoking me to scream so loud. Ooops. Note to self, must learn to express excitement quietly in the middle of the night. Time passed by slowly but surely, I went over my list. Clean room..check. Go over interview...check. Wear something cuter..check. Breath..check. Finally I was approaching the last three minutes. Then I panic. Was I supposed to call him? Or was he supposed to call me? I quickly send out a message. PHEW, crisis averted I get the proper instructions and now it is time. Three years of wishing, three months of persisting, thirty minutes of screaming, and three minutes of panicking all came down to the moment. Ring Ring Ring.....

Reshma: What has been your favorite role to date and why?
John: My favorite role I would have to say is Jism, because I personally love doing intense roles they are closer to what I believe in. I think my next role in Aashayein which means hope will be my new favorite when it comes out.

Reshma: How did you feel when you found out you were going to be in your first film? What did you say to yourself? How do you feel each time someone calls you and says they want you to play a particular role?
John: I honestly did not think about it, Mahesh bhatt approached me and said you seem to have the intensity that a lot of actors lack and you have the body and face. I really did not have time to think about it the only time I thought about it was when I saw it. I was amazed with what I had done.

Reshma: You are known to choose offbeat films, what attracted you to films like Water, Kabul Express, and No smoking?
John: I loved all three scripts, I thought they were brilliant! I look at films as an actor. As an actor there are two things you need to do 1) satisfy yourself with the kind of work your doing 2) satisfy you audience. Sometimes you succeed in one, sometimes you succeed in the other, sometimes both, you need to draw a balance

Reshma:
You have been getting a lot of criticism for No Smoking, what is your reaction to all of this?
John: I think it's a film close to my heart, unfortunately it was positioned wrongly in India. In the roman film festival it got a lot of acclaim but in India we positioned it wrongly. A lot of people will discuss what I do, but watch the film for the novelty of the film.

Reshma: Tell me a little bit about the community service projects you are into.
John: Well PETA and Habitat for Humanity are the biggest ones, and I am involved with Make A Wish Foundation through my mother which helps terminally ill children.

Reshma: Do you have a saying or quote that you live your life by, or cheers you up when you are having a bad day?
John: I just believe that if your not living on the edge your wasting space!

Reshma: I consider you to be a role model to today's youth, which is no easy task! What do you think a role model for today's youth needs to have?
John: It's a very essential responsibility to have. I think a role model needs to remember to behave like yourself and think what is morally right. There are a lot of people who follow what you do and there are a lot of people watching. Don't put on an act, do it from your heart, be who you are.

Reshma: If you could eat one food for the rest of your life what would it be?
John: I would have to say Daal.

Reshma: What was your favorite children's story growing up?
John: Pinocchio, and Rapunzel (laughs a little)

All I can say is that you have not experienced life until you have heard John say "yes, my love" to you. With that I am off, I have some day dreams to catch up on. ~*~Reshma Dhawan~*~