John Abraham: Want to do films for family audience

Following a series of hardcore action dramas, John Abraham w plans to cater to family audiences with his upcoming comedy Pagalpanti.  actor, who has established himself as one of most popular action stars of Bollywood with films like "Force", Rocky Handsome, Parmanu, Satyameva Jayate and Batla House, said he was dying to comedy for quite sometime.

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"re is for all kinds of film and I want to do all kinds of film. I have been dying to do a comedy. Films like 'Housefull 4', 'Total Dhamaal' has come with negative criticism but look at numbers it has done? "My point is families have enjoyed se films. And I want to do films that are enjoyed by family audience. re will be criticism, one has to accept it and get on to next film. I will be doing 'Mumbai Saga', 'Satyameva Jayate 2' next," John said in an interview here. 

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actor's last comedy film was 2015's Welcome Back and he believes it is essential to reach out to family audience. " kind of last few films I have done are all serious. I needed a break, which is why I wanted to do a film that will make me happy and audience also happy. Pagalpanti is a film that cant be critiqued," he said.

"It is a film that gave us a chance to spre happiness. It has double meaning langu, exposure, bloodshed, even our villain is also cute. We want to make a film that will reach audience from of six to 96."  46-year-old actor said it was hard for him to switch gears to comedy after an intense film like "Batla House". 

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"After I h got out of Batla House I started shooting for Pagalpanti so first two days were very difficult. I enjoy doing comedy films and it has worked for me as well. It is toughest genre to make in business, it is very difficult to make people laugh." Pagalpanti also features Anil Kapoor, Arsh Warsi, Saurabh Shukla, Ileana D'Cruz, Pulkit Samrat, Kriti Kharbanda and Urvashi Rautela. Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Abhishek Pathak, Krishan Kumar, and Kumar Mangat Pathak, film releases on vember 22.

John Abraham's filmy career: Dhoom, Pagalpanti, Hera Pheri 3