My first thought was, I THINK MY KNEE IS GONE: John Abraham

The action hero of the Bollywood John Abraham talks about his action sequence which almost made him lose his knee!

The actor was shooting for a scene in which needs to smack down seven back to back doors. As the shoot was going on in Hungary, they didn't have set designer to build an artificial set and doors for the scene. So John was supposed to break real solid doors for the action sequence. " While running I had to protect my eyes and face from the flying wood splinters. I flew through at such speed that the old old woman stationed near the seventh floor, with a camera on hand to catch his expression, was still looking behind me and didn't react," the actor recalls.

But what happened next was something unexpected. He slipped on the seventh door's handle and tossed at the wall. This was the crucial time for him when he had to decide 'what should I save?' - head or his knee! With an obvious answer he saved his head banging his knee on the floor! He realized that his knee is seriously injured! The doctor gave some injections for temporary cure. "I returned (from hospital) to the shoot, sliding down a rooftop, without realizing I was rupturing the knee even more in action," he recollects. (sic)

In the next scene John was supposed to zipline at the height of 150 feet between two buildings and villain Tahir Bhasin would cut the zip. John said no for body double for the sequence, he wanted to make it look more real and convincing. The action started; when Tahir cut the zip John ended up swaying and finally banged onto glass and hit the wall! The impact was so powerful that he spin of the roof and fell 20 feet down. The exact words he said about the moment are," My first thought was, I think my knee is gone." (sic)

He was admitted to hospital that evening and the doctor called him an idiot to do such thing. The doc said that he needs to cut it open. The 43-year-old actor was quoted saying," He was Hungarian, I was speaking in English, so he didn't understand the when I him I felt pain. I have a factor in my blood whereby I don't react to local anesthesia. So while it takes just one injection to numb someone, I have to take eight to desensitize 15 percent of the area." (sic)

For six days John went to hospital for treatment. There came on point when the actor was told by doctors that they need to amputate (cut off) his leg! John was in shock to hear that. He called his doctor from Mumbai and told him the whole situation. The doctor said to put drainpipe into his knee, bind it up and land in Mumbai immediately.

The surgery was done and it saved his knee which he might have lost forever. "The third surgery in Mumbai saved my knee, else I would have spent my life on crutches." (sic)

Well, we can say now that the actor sure has given his all effort the film!

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