John Abraham recalls Taliban’s threat while he was shooting for Kabul Express in Afghanistan

Actor John Abraham recalled the threat that he and the rest of the team of Kabul Express had received from the Taliban when they were shooting the movie in Afghanistan. The movie, released in 2006, told the fictional story of two Indian journalists, an American journalist and an Afghan who are taken hostage by Pakistani soldiers and are forced to take a 48-hour journey into a war-torn Afghanistan.

Speaking about the threat, John said “There were no social media at that time. When I was leaving Afghanistan, Afghani people told me John jaan (jaan means bhai) whatever you do, don’t say anything bad about Afghanistan. And today I want to say on record that Afghani people are the most beautiful, loveliest people in the world, amazing hospitality. Really lovely people, superb people.”

The actor also recalled an incident that occurred while he was staying at the house of Mohammad Najibullah, former President of Afghanistan, while he was filming for Kabul Express. He said, “It was an UN-approved hotel. I came to the terrace to have tea, and this rocket came from the front and hit the US consulate. Condoleezza Rice used to be the US foreign secretary to the state in Afghanistan at the time. It was Afghanistan’s way of telling her that they are not happy with the Americans here. There was another incident where a suicide bomber had blown themselves up just six hours before we reached this location. It was quite an experience.”