Jism 2 Reviews

User Ratings (4 out of 5)

Critics: (3 out of 5)

Nine years after "Jism" gave us a new kind of heroine in Bipasha Basu who emerged with erotic insouciance out of the water and headed straight for the hip region, "Jism 2" gives us a strangely inhibited porn-star heroine.

For those expecting a sex romp with the queen of adult content, Jism 2 is a bit of a damper. There are three well-oiled bodies, two male and one female, caught in the throes of an anguished do-or-die passion that can only burn itself out. But sex is really not the solution for these wounded characters.

Director Pooja Bhatt aims to take her characters beyond their bodies. These are seriously flawed people not afraid to scream out their outrage when life deals them a particularly unfair blow.

But then, there we have it. Who said life was only about fair deals and perfect bodies? The outer world of Pooja's people is a Sri Lankan paradise lit up with toasted beaches and enticing holiday resorts where time stops still. But secreted in this idyllic setting are deep wounds of anger, resentment and protest, all accumulated from years of unexpressed hurt.

Izna announces at the outset she is a porn star, not unlike the actress who plays her. She wears the perfect clothes, travels business class and sleeps only with the poshest men. She is now on to her riskiest client, a high-end terrorist Kabir, played with an enigmatic wackiness by Randeep Hooda,whom the Indian government, represented strangely by only two officers Arunodoy Singh and his senior Arif Zakaria, wants dead or alive.

As luck would have it, Izna was once in love with Kabir. Now she must pretend to be in love with him again. Perhaps because Ms Leone is new to dramatic acting, we never quite understand how Izna feels about rekindling old passions with the man who once loved her and then left her.

Is she still in love with him while pretending to be seducing him? Does she take up the dangerous job in the subconscious hope of teaming up with him for life? And when Kabir finally tells her a deep damning secret about the people she's working for she reacts so foolishly that we can only say working with the body numbs the mind.

Just how much the confusion and inner chaos projected by Izna is actually Sunny Leone's is hard to tell. But like Sonam Kapoor in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Saawariya", we often feel the character's confusions to be suspiciously close to the actress' own inability to grasp the complexities of her character.

On the plus side, Ms Leone often looks surprisingly vulnerable and wounded on camera. She has a terrific pair of legs which she generally keeps crossed. The bust is expressive too, yes. But she manages to keep us interested in more than her physical assets.

Arunoday Singh as the man who leads Leone into the lion's den (so to speak) plays a role akin to Abhishek Bachchan's in "Dhoom 2". But a lot more angst-ridden. He's a man who falls in love with the honeytrap. Singh is not fully able to express the character's emotional turmoil. He is far more in control doing action scenes.

Finally the film belongs to Randeep Hooda. As an assassin on the brink who recites Ghalib in a voice that poets would envy, plays the cello and allows the woman he loves to lead him to destruction, Hooda brings to his part a lacerated hurt and a resonant retributive glory.

This is the actor's second triumph in a Mahesh Bhatt script in a row after "Jannat 2". He plays the two self-destructive characters on different scales, but equally effectively.If only Hooda had taken off all those religious rings in his finger. They don't go with his character.

The passion-play is underpinned by a whole lot of evocative background songs and on-screen poetic utterances that remind us of the close relationship between violence and art. What segregates the outcast from the messiah is the way the talent of self-expression is channelised.

Hooda's Kabir is genius gone the wrong way.

More dreamy than steamy, "Jism 2" takes us far beyond the body experience into three tortured souls looking for sensual salvation. Pooja Bhatt delivers a good-looking film with an arresting inner life. This may not be the right evening out for those who found last week's "Super Kool" film entertaining. But those who feel life in the movies is not always about the good times, "Jism 2" makes its point forcibly.

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Aug 06,2012 teambasti	I heard and read a lot about one of most hyped film ”JISM2”. People were divided in their view of film. So called film Pundit were giving their THIS & THAT about film. As an audience I liked a few film of Mr. Mahesh Bhatt. Romantic thriller is not my genre. On Monday I happened to watch film in theatre. As theatre was not equipped with state of art tools so it’s better to keep Audio part out of discussion. Before taking decision to go and watch film I read some of critic’s article. One of the critics said that whole film is OK except script. Someone wrote that Sunny and Arunodya singh didn’t do well. Myself as I said Romantic thriller is not my preferred choice but I still like this film including script. When a writer writes some ideas on paper to make a flow of story, at the same time we can say that there could be some other suggestions/options to portray same thing. As everybody is unique so is the ideas. Naturally if same Mahesh Bhatt tries to rewrite same story after one year from now he might come up with some better ideas to accommodate. But in a given time and scenario someone has to hold a stand somewhere to move the project forward. Randeep Hooda did a fantastic job. Sunny and Arunodya with given experience as actors did a satisfactory job. Puja Bhatt as a director did a good job. So is music and cinematography. Only reservation about film is that very last climax looks like wrapped in hasty. It doesn’t mean that drama is not there. It is there but director should have also worked on cinematic part of climax as she did in first half of film. I think what hurt the film most was its negative publicity. Now question is about nudity and erotica. No doubt film is not meant for family but still if as Indians if we are fond of Ajanta & Elora than it is not that morally bad as it was projected in media. Better director should have cut a few body posture shots without compromising substance of film to gain U certificate from censor. Secondly, showing intimate scenes in promo and on posters also worked negatively. As a matter of fact if we watch film without being prejudice, we may find even intimacy was shown in an artistic way according to the demand of story. I think there are 2 type of group in media and in Bollywood. A few of them are liberal when it comes to bracing new ideas and people in industry. Second type of people for their own reasons are prejudice to see that how a person who was a known adult film star can change herself in to a new Avtar in main stream cinema. Rating 3 out of 5. By: Jagroop Singh Shergill - http://www.facebook.com/jagroopsingh.shergill
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