John Abraham's romance with Toronto 16th Sept 2006
14.00 IST
By Agencies
Dashing John Abraham , accompanied by Bipasha Basu , has been in Toronto right from day one of the ongoing international film festival.
John may not have had Indian fans swarming all around him like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan did earlier on in the event, but the media attention he has attracted has been no less.
In Toronto for the special presentation of Kabir Khan 's thriller Kabul Express , John addressed a press conference at the downtown Sutton Place Hotel Thursday in the company of the film's Kabir and co-star Arshad Warsi .
‘Kabul Express’ hasn't exactly floored local critics – one of them described the film as "the most sublimely terrible movie in this year's festival" – but that hasn't exactly affected John's considerable fan following in Toronto.
The reason is pretty obvious: his fame here rests solely on his widely lauded performance as a Gandhian idealist in Deepa Mehta 's Water , which was the opening night film of the 2005 edition of the festival.
John is now due to play a role in Mehta's next film - the $15 million ‘Exclusion’, based on the ill-fated 1914 Komagata Maru voyage that ended well short of Vancouver in the face of the racial laws that prevailed in Canada back then.
So there is reason to believe that John's romance with Toronto is far from over.
John Abraham's romance with Toronto
