Review: Jism 2 :Lust, sex and dhokha

Cast: Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda and Arunoday Singh Director: Pooja Bhatt

click here for elaboration . Lust, sex and dhokha are its overriding ingredients, but Jism-2, for good measure, opens with a Biblical reference – "the life of man upon earth is warfare" – so that the audience does not miss the moral context of the drama. But when it is Sunny side up with a voluptuous and well-endowed Leone using her body at the  drop of a black bustier to get her point across in this steamy and slow-burning drama, it is actually a perfectly agreeable battle to wage. Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2, scripted by Mahesh Bhatt, isn’t quite the full-bodied sex flick that Leone’s presence in the cast might raise visions of: the liberal dollops of skin show, as is the norm in a Bhatt camp offering, are given a veneer of sustained sophistication. Sunny Leone is cast as porn star Izna who, after a night on a hotel bed that establishes the lady’s enormous power over men, is hired by an intelligence agent, Ayaan Thakur (Arunoday Singh), and taken to picturesque Galle in Sri Lanka to infiltrate the secluded hideaway of a dreaded lawman-turned-assassin Kabir Wilson (Randeep Hooda). Initially averse to taking up the risky job because the killer happens to be her ex-flame, Izna sees the offer as an opportunity to make the man pay for his sins, which includes vanishing from her life without warning after a short-lived but euphoric love affair. to read and know more click on our newsroom here.  What Jism 2 lacks by way of pace and thrills is amply made up for by the strikingly composed and lit frames, the generally taut editing, a first-rate performance from Hooda and, of course, the rampaging sex appeal of Sunny Leone, who struts around in lacy lingerie, flashing her ample assets and dishing out generous doses of the 'just do it' spirit. However, because of the manner in which the sex scenes have been filmed, they are neither cringe-inducing nor overtly exploitative. The film is a male voyeur's delight all right, but director Pooja Bhatt often erases the gender lines by presenting both the lead actors, too, in bare-bodied splendour. On the flip side, Jism 2 fails to create the atmosphere of menace and foreboding that a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a heartless annihilator should necessarily have generated. Even the sexual chemistry between the seductress and the two men seems somewhat laboured at times. What saves the film from falling into a bottomless pit is a certain degree of serious-mindedness that is embedded in the screenplay. Jism 2 goes beyond the confines of carnality to refer to bigger issues, political and polemical. The darkest place in this universe is the heart of the delusional assassin who suffers mood disorders, has a book about Che Guevara on his armchair, quotes Jesus Christ ("Father, forgive them for they know not what they do") and wants to save the world from itself. But it is Kabir himself who needs deliverance from the gloom that envelopes his life. click here for elaboration .