B-Town’s Hunk John Abraham Went Nude In New York

John did a complete nude shot for a prison scene in Kabir Khan’s New York.

It was a prison sequence in the US where John, who is suspected to be a terrorist, is denuded of all dignity. This is how they break terror suspect’s spirit in an American prison when they want him to confess to being a terrorist.

Said director Kabir Khan, “They make you eat, sleep, urinate and defecate in the same room. Then they begin to strip your dignity down until you are left in the cold, dingy cell completely naked. John had to enact this sequence.”

When briefed about the sequence, John apparently didn’t hesitate for a second. Said Kabir, “He immediately agreed to do the scene and was quite traumatized at the end of it.”

Prior to John, other male actors too went nude for the camera. Ranbir Kapoor in Saawariya. He was in a towel and nothing else singing Jab se tere naina. He dropped the towel. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali prudently dropped the tower-dropping moment. Coincidentally Ranbir’s father Rishi Kapoor had dropped his towel in Bobby, the film directed by Raj Kapoor in which Rishi made his debut as a leading man. The scene had Aroona Irani sneaking on the 18-year old Rishi after his bath.

Rahul Bose gone butt-naked repeatedly in Dev Benegal’s Split Wide Open, without shame or apology. For a scene in Nayak Anil wore only a mud pack all over his body. For a sequence in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Jail, Neil Nitin Mukesh went completely nude for a strip-and-search sequence Neil had done a full-frontal.

For a sequence of police torture in Hansal Mehta’s Shahid Rajkummar Rao insisted on sitting stark naked on the cold stone floor of the police station in front of the brutal interrogator. Dedication taken to a new level.

Finally, Mr Perfectionist Aamir Khan took the nation by storm with his birthday suit on the railway track in Raj Kumar Hirani’s PK with only a tape recorder to cover his modesty. Audiences are still wondering which was the song playing on the tape recorder.