Bollywood’s dashing star John Abraham is busy learning the six-string for a movie role.

John is playing a musician in Imtiaz Ali’s Rock Star, where his fans will see him as a long-haired rocker playing guitar. According to John, people are very wise today and they can judge whether the actor is actually performing or faking and he doesn’t want to leave any loophole in his performance.

“I don’t want to be an actor just to look good and wear trendy clothes on screen. I want to go deeper into my character. It’s great fun to prepare for a role. I’m soon going to get those chords right,” John is quoted as saying.

Incidentally, John previously learnt to play flute for Deepa Mehta’s Water, which is the Canadian entry for the Oscars.

John is currently working in Sriram Raghavan’s Happy Birthday, Nagesh Kukunoor’s Aashayein and Anurag Kashyap’s No Smoking. He has also clinched a plum role in Deepa Mehta’s next film titled The Exclusion.