John: Sex-packed angel

John Abraham is going angelic. Not only has he spouted wings, he also has a song on his lips!

And the men behind this new avatar of the sex symbol are Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood of Strings. The Pakistani band has shot a song with John and are quite kicked about it. “We have always had models or ourselves in our music videos. But with every new album, we try something different and John is our latest change,” says Faisal.

Strings had earlier worked with John while shooting for the movie Zinda’s song Yeh Hai Meri Kahani. “We really liked working with John and Sanjay Dutt in the film. Bilal, John and I are very good friends and we had thought that if something good comes up then we will give it a shot together,” says Faisal. When Bilal was composing the song, both of them visualised an angel. “When we were making this song Koi Aanay Wala Hai, we visualised a guy with wings... an angel actually. And when we thought of the video, we could not think of anyone else but John. And since he also liked the concept, he shot the video. The way John looks and the way he is, to make him look like an angel wasn’t tough at all,” shares Faisal. The music video was shot in Kuala Lumpur.

As they look forward to releasing their song in India, does the debate over Pakistani singers make any difference to them? “Music has worked so well for Indo-Pak relations. I grew up listening to Kishore Kumar, Lataji and Ashaji. Pakistani music got popularity some 10 years back. Not that we haven’t had artists before that, but the exposure came to us just a decade back. India has a wider audience and the passion for music here is far more than in Pak.”