Nagesh Kukunoor is known to be a hard taskmaster where his actors are concerned. But sometimes even Nagesh can get surprised is something we learnt. It is common knowledge that Nagesh wanted John to loose 16 kgs in two months for his forthcoming film Aashayein. The tough part was that it had to be a gradual weight loss while shooting, as they were shooting linear. Says Nagesh, “Everyone knows that I was pushing John to lose weight. What people don’t know is after a certain point I was very worried and didn’t want him to lose any more weight. Actually he had already lost a lot of weight and everyday after shooting for twelve hours would almost collapse on the set. Now I was genuinely worried. I started complaining him to stop exercising and trying to loose weight. After all it is only a film. That’s when John would say, don’t worry, you are there to take care of me.