John Abraham attends action workshop for Rocky Handsome

Rocky Handsome is an upcoming action-thriller film directed by Nishikant Kamat. It features John Abraham and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles. John is co-producing this film under his home banner John Abraham Entertainment with Sunir Khetrapal’s Azure Entertainment. It is a loose adaptation of the 2010 Korean film The Man from Nowhere. 

The film’s story revolves around a man who sets out to take vengeance against drug mafia after they take away an eight-year old girl, with whom he shares a special bond. The film is slated to release on October 2, 2015.

John, who is keen to play a new kind of action hero, reportedly attended a 12-day action workshop in Bangkok to get the stunts right. Director Kamat reveals, “I’ve done one kind of action with John in Force. With this one, the action will be in a very authentic space. Audiences will actually wince when a blow is dealt.”

When told that he has been helming a lot more remakes than original screenplays, he says, “I admit Rocky Handsome is a remake of a Korean film. But this one is so different from the original. Likewise when I remade Force with John, I completely re-wrote the script."