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John Abraham

John Abraham
John Abraham born 17 December 1972 in Mumbai, India, is an Indian film actor and a former model.

Abraham was born to a Malayali father who is an architect and, his mother is part of Mumbai's Parsi community. Abraham's Parsi name is “Farhan” to which his father, being a catholic, added “Abraham” as a respect for the Bible and named him “John“. He has a younger brother, Alan.

John has his own fashion line, his brand is called JA Clothes, which primarily features his favorite article of clothing, jeans.


New York (2009) Aashayein (2008) Dostana (2008) Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007)

No Smoking (2007) Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) Kabul Express (2006) Baabul (2006) Taxi 9-2-11 (2006)

Zinda (2006) Garam Masala (2005) Water (2005) Viruddh (2005) Kaal (2005) Karam (2005)

Elaan (2005) Madhoshi (2004) Dhoom (2004) Lakeer (2004) Paap (2004) Aetbaar (2004)

Saaya (2003) Jism (2003)






What members say | Filmography

John Abraham - what members say


  • Viruddh
  • Viruddh review by from England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Simple yet powerful film- well done manjrekar-again!! 1 December 2005
    ... is Amitabh no matter what age he is! This movie belongs entirely to him though John Abraham, Sanjay Dutt, Sharmila Tagore give credible support. It ain't Saraansh but cert...   Read customer review
  • Garam Masala
  • Garam Masala review by from Forest Gate, London
    Rated - 1.0 stars Not Garam at all 14 August 2006
    ...erry go round of Akshay trying to maintain three relationships all at once with John Abraham attempting to help him. The film drags on for almost three hours and does nothi...   Read customer review
  • Water
  • Water review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Lovely, enlightening and sad 23 February 2009
    ...illustrated with some great artistic shots and some good acting particularly by John Abraham and Lisa Ray. It has certainly inspired me to find out more about this unfo...   Read customer review

John Abraham - filmography


  • I, Me aur Main (2013)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Chitrangda Singh,  Prachi Desai
    Director: Kapil Sharma
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Ishaan is a charismatic, good-looking music producer from Mumbai. He lives a sheltered existence, is the centre of his life, the apple of his mother’s (Zarina Wahib) eye, always protected by his elder sister Shivani (Mini Mathur) and stays at his girlfriend Anushka’s (Chitrangda Singh’s) house. He ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Akshay Kumar,  Asin Thottumkal,  John Abraham
    Director: Sajid Khan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Housefull 2 The Dirty Dozen, is the second super star packed installment in the HF franchise. A completely new story with new characters and a new star cast. HF2 is bigger than its predecessor in every aspect. It is the story of four fathers, four daughters and four prospective son-in-laws and as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 200 members
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  • Desi Boyz - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Akshay Kumar,  John Abraham,  Deepika Padukone
    Director: Rohit Dhawan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The year is 2009. The world has been struck by the financial meltdown. But Nick Mathur and Jerry Patel don't feel a thing in their comfortable pad in London. Nick feels smug with his successful investment banking job, the new bonus in his pocket and his beautiful fiancé, Radhika, by his side, while ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 135 members
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  • Desi Boyz on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Akshay Kumar,  John Abraham,  Deepika Padukone
    Director: Rohit Dhawan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jerry Patel and Nick Mathur originally came to the UK to study as overseas students at Oxford University. Some years later, life is good in their comfortable London pad. Nick's got a lucrative investment banking job and a beautiful fiancée, Radhika. Jerry happily sponges off his wealthy pal while ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 348 members
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  • Force (2011)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Genelia D'Souza,  Raj Babbar
    Director: Nishikant Kamat
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Indian thriller following the attempts of a renegade narcotics officer to tackle India's leading drug cartels. Yashvardhan (John Abraham) is a man with a commitment to justice so strong he is willing to bend - sometimes even break - the rules in its pursuit. Only a man with such a passion would ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • 7 Khoon Maaf on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Priyanka Chopra,  Naseeruddin Shah,  John Abraham
    Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The romantic misadventures of Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes, a beautiful lass who over the course of thirty-five odd years, gets married seven times due to the untimely and mysterious deaths of half a dozen of her hapless husbands. The strange circumstances of their deaths, makes Susanna a prime accused.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 246 members
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  • Film City (2010)
    Starring: John Abraham
    Director: Deven Khote
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    "Film City" is a light-hearted story of a chawl (slum) situated just next to (the actual) Film City, a studio complex at the centre of the Bollywood film industry. It follows the misadventures, antics and lives of its quirky residents as they try to piece together their own movie -- with the ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 4 members
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  • New York - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Katrina Kaif,  Neil Nitin Mukesh
    Director: Kabir Khan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "New York" is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. For most of us, larger events in the world are just headlines in the newspapers but these events can change our lives... forever. "New York" is one such ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 120 members
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  • New York on DVD (2009)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Katrina Kaif,  Neil Nitin Mukesh
    Director: Kabir Khan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "New York" is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of a city often described as the centre of the world. For most of us, larger events in the world are just headlines in the newspapers but these events can change our lives... forever. "New York" is one such ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 746 members
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  • Aashayein (2008)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Farida Jalal,  Girish Karnad
    Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Rahul Singh goes from the high of winning a lot of money in a bet to the low of discovering he only has 90 days to live. Moving into a hospice he meets a number of patients that change his outlook on life and challenge him to make the most of what he's got.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 8 members
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  • Dostana on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  John Abraham,  Priyanka Chopra
    Director: Tarun Mansukhani
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It's all happening in the Beach Party Capital of the world.....Miami is the setting for Dharma Productions latest offering Dostana - serving a cocktail of all ingredients to do with Friendship, Fun, Frolic and that thing called Love....but with a slight twist there is a small case of pretending to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 905 members
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  • Dostana - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Priyanka Chopra
    Director: Tarun Mansukhani
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It's all happening in the Beach Party Capital of the world.....Miami is the setting for Dharma Productions latest offering Dostana - serving a cocktail of all ingredients to do with Friendship, Fun, Frolic and that thing called Love....but with a slight twist there is a small case of pretending to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 89 members
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  • Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Bipasha Basu,  Arshad Warsi
    Director: Vivek Agnihotri
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Southall United are a struggling football club; with no stars, no sponsors, no spectators and no coach. Yet, they still hold the unlikely dream of winning the cup. But with opposition from their local council and a local sports commentator on their case, is there really any future for this small club?
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 446 members
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  • Hattrick on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Gautam Bhimani,  Harsha Bhogle
    Director: Milan Luthria
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hat Trick! is a story of the triumph of the human spirit. Deriving it's name from the famous magical expression of a "Hat Trick", it deals with four stories from different slices of life, in different parts of the world, each of which reach a crescendo, and each of which need the protagonist to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 254 members
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  • Taxi 9-2-11 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Sameera Reddy,  Nana Patekar
    Director: Milan Luthria
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Raghu (Nana Patekar), an insurance salesperson now turned taxi driver and Jai (John Abraham), the son of a wealthy business family, are two citizens of Mumbai. Both characters live in different worlds. Their paths cross one day when Jai steps into Raghu's taxi cab. Jai is on his way to court to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 697 members
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  • Kaal on DVD (2005)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Lara Dutta,  Vivek Oberoi
    Director: Soham Shah
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A group of friends undertake a weekend of of adventure and join an animal expert and his wife, as they investigate the decline in numbers of wild tigers. However the further they trek into the jungle, the likelihood of them returning safely seems more and more remote.
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 762 members
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  • Water on DVD (2005)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Lisa Ray,  Seema Biswas
    Director: Deepa Mehta
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    It was once rumoured that Bal Thackeray was quoted as saying that the person he hates most in the world is Deepa Mehta. Thackeray is the leader of Shiv Sena, one of the most powerful right-wing Hindu fundamentalist groups in India and is reputed to have a stranglehold on everything that transpires ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,322 members
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  • Garam Masala (2005)
    Starring: Akshay Kumar,  John Abraham,  Rimi Sen
    Director: Priyadarshan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    What happens when a good for nothing handsome hunk like Mac (Akshay Kumar) finds himself in possession of an empty flat and access to three gorgeous air hostesses Priti (Daisy), Sweety (Neetu) and Puja (Nargis)? Garam Masala!
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 897 members
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  • Karam on DVD (2005)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Bharat Dabholkar,  Priyanka Chopra
    Director: Sanjay Gupta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Bollywood drama, starring John Abraham as a tortured hitman who has decided to quit the business and go straight, settling down with his wife. With his old boss Captain embroiled in a violent gang conflict though, John finds it more difficul to quit than he thought. When his wife is kidnapped by ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 486 members
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  • Madhoshi on DVD (2004)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Bipasha Basu,  Priyanshu Chatterjee
    Director: Tanveer Khan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    All human beings are capable of distinguishing the real from the unreal (imaginary). But there are a few who refuse to recognize this distinction. Anu (Bipasha Basu), a fine arts student, from a happy and affluent family experiences a tragedy. On September 11, 2001 terrorists attacked New York's ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 200 members
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  • Dhoom on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Esha Deol,  John Abraham,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    CID officer Jai Dixit enlists the help of Ali, a garage mechanic, after an armoured truck is robbed by bikers. Ali isn't too keen on helping Jai track them down though...
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,234 members
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  • Elaan on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Arjun Rampal,  John Abraham,  Rahul Khanna
    Director: Vikram Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bollywood action. Terror has a new name - Baba Sikander (Mithun Chakraborthy). Drugs, murder and kidnapping are his game. Baba Sikander rules by fear. Just his phone call can sound your death knell. He recognizes no geographical boundaries for terrorism is his reign and he respects no international ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 639 members
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  • Aetbaar on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Bipasha Basu,  John Abraham,  Supriya Pilqaonkar
    Director: Vikram Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of life's most beautiful relationships - father and daughter. Happy moments, treasured memories, sworn secrets, shared sorrows - from the arrival of the daughter to the time she moves on. But what about the father's greatest fear - the man in his daughter's life?
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 568 members
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  • Paap on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Udita Goswami
    Director: Pooja Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In a secluded monastery in the Himalayas, an elderly Lama gets a vision indicating the rebirth of his teacher in the city of Delhi. He summons Kaya, a 20 year old girl from a nearing village and assigns her the task of finding the 6 year old boy in Delhi and bringing him back to the monastery...
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 193 members
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  • Jism (2003)
    Starring: Bipasha Basu,  John Abraham
    Director: Amit Saxena
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Jism is the story of Kabir Lal, a restless, reckless and alcoholic lawyer whose steady race towards self-destruction even his close friends are unable to stop. A chance encounter with Sonia Khanna -- a young, sexy and dangerously ambitious wife of a middle-aged industrialist Rohit Khanna -- exposes ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 406 members
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  • Saaya on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Abraham,  Tara Sharma,  Mahima Choudhury
    Director: Anurag Basu
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dr. Aakash Bhatnagar is an atheist and happily married to Maya, who is also a doctor working in the same hospital as Aakash. When Maya offers her services to the victims of a flood, as there is a scarcity of doctors in the area, the bus in which she is travelling meets with a major accident. Soon ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 289 members
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  • Hook Ya Crook
    Starring: John Abraham,  Amrita Rao,  Genelia D'Souza
    Director: David Dhawan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Hook Ya Crook tells the story of Viraj Pradhan, a boy with unlimited passion for the game of cricket and who aspires to play for the Indian Team one day! Alas, it seems like his dream will always remain a dream when he is sentenced to a maximum security prison due to his reckless behaviour. In the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8 members
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  • Bajao on DVD
    Starring: Shilpa Shetty,  Shahrukh Khan,  John Abraham
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Bollywood is massive. It makes up to 800 films a year - twice as many as Hollywood and about 14 million Indian people go to the cinema everyday. Bollywood's biggest audience outside India is in Britain. Bollywood films have managed to cross over and now it's not just Indian families watching them - ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 34 members
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John Abraham facts

5 most recent films

Race 2 - 3.0 stars
I, Me aur Main - 3 stars
Vicky Donor - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen - 3.0 stars
Vicky Donor - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dostana - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dostana - 3.5 stars
Water - 3.5 stars
New York - 3.5 stars
Viruddh - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Force - 3 stars
I, Me aur Main - 3 stars
Little Zizou - 1.0 stars
Film City - 1.5 stars
Bajao - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Akshay Kumar - 6 times - show films
Bipasha Basu - 5 times - show films
Irrfan Khan - 5 times - show films
Neil Nitin Mukesh - 5 times - show films
Priyanka Chopra - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kabir Khan - 5 times - show films
Sanjay Gupta - 4 times - show films
Tarun Mansukhani - 4 times - show films
Vivek Agnihotri - 3 times - show films
Deepa Mehta - 3 times - show films