And here we’re going to watch John Abraham transforming in totally new ‘strong’ avatar… After donning the characters of urban dude several times, John will be soon wearing the role of a warrior for a period film.

However the people behind this project are tight lipped and our birdies managed to get few titbits from industry sources. It seems the film will be based on a book, which carries the story of the warrior and the makers are yet to finalise the formalities on the rights of the book.

The project will be produced by Madhu Mantena, who has bought the rights of the book at a whopping price. The untitled film will be set in 18th century and will be directed by Sabal Shekhawat, a noted ad-director and a friend of John. Doing a period film for the first time, John finds it quite challenging to do this film. For his role, the actor will take on special training in martial arts.

According to sources, the role needs John to be extremely agile, almost panther-like. So he will have to train in a martial arts discipline from the 18th century and also specific to the community that the real-life character belonged to. The actor said to take on this physical preparation once he’s done with the shooting of ‘Dostana 2’.

Wait for a hot warrior….