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Jism 2 will make whatever money it can for 2 more days after which Ek Tha Tiger will take over the box office. Lifetime collections of Jism 2 will not be more than 33 Crores. The Bhatt’s excel at making small budget films but somehow will fail this time to please the distributors.

However the trouble lies in the fact that it would now immediately end its run around the 30 crore mark. While this would be actually much better than the likes of major multi crore biggies like ‘Players‘ and ‘Tezz‘ which vanished without a trace early this year, the fact still remains that from audience perspective the film couldn’t deliver as promised. Those who wanted to catch the film did that in the opening weekend itself but beyond the target audience the film couldn’t fetch any audience whatsoever as the word of mouth wasn’t conducive to any non-‘Jism’ fans to step into theatres.

It could well be a ‘thodi khushi thoda gham’ scenario for the Bhatts. On one end they have managed to demonstrate enough clout in terms of franchise value and brand placement by ensuing that their film made the required moolah to keep them in green, on the other they have not able to build further audience base for this genre and subject, something for which there was actually an opportunity, what with Sunny Leone in their folds. The film has made its money but it would be interesting to see what do Pooja Bhatt and Mahesh Bhatt plan next for ‘Jism 3′ which they have already announced for next year.

As for the other two releases of the week, ‘Krishna aur Kans’ and ‘Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai’, they struggled to complete even a week in those select screens where they were played and failed miserably at the box office.

Randeep Hooda and Sunny Leone In Jism 2 Movie Stills

Considering the fact that the movie was made on a small budget, one cannot claim that the movie is at a loss. However, the distributors who purchased the film at high prices might have something to say here. Jism 2, it seems will not even cross the 34-35 Crores barrier.

Gangs of Wasseypur 2 might actually wash off the film from theaters this week, whereas Ek Tha Tiger will make sure the movie doesn’t see a 3rd week.

From the looks of it Jism 2 will reach a maximum figure of 27 Crores in its 1st week and a lifetime collection of somewhat 30-31 Crores. The movie has undoubtedly proved to be a huge loss for the distributors and failed to establish Sunny Leone anywhere close to an actress.

Arunoday Singh and Sunny Leone In Jism 2 Movie Stills

After the release of Gangs of Wasseypur 2, Jism 2 will suffer even more as it is already running on a limited number of screens across India. Though the film is doing well in some urban multiplexes and single screen theaters in non-urban districts it’s fate at the box office is expected to come to an end.

Sunny Leone In Jism 2 Movie Stills

As I think of the pathetic 132 minutes that I spent yawning, fidgeting, munching popcorn and paying occasional visits to the restroom, here’s what I make of the 10 main reasons why Jism 2 didn’t work:

1) Sunny Leone! The reason why people went to watch Jism 2 is the reason why the film falls flat on its face. Her sizzling hot photos and videos may have adorned your desktops and laptops in your ‘private times’, but in Jism 2, she is totally ‘thanda’! Every inch of her frame looks so very plastic that she could even give tough competition to many of our new B-town stars.

2) As far as I remember, director Pooja Bhatt had told in an interview that she has made her heroes too strip in the film. (Now don’t get excited as you will be highly disappointed!) If her idea of male-stripping is that of a lungi-clad Randeep Hooda massaging Madame Leone’s bare back, then I must say she needs to do some thorough research on the word ‘stripping’! Reason enough for the film to stride towards failure!

3) Having talked about two of the leads in the film, how could the third one be left behind? Arunoday Singh undoes all that he had done in his last film ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi’. Not a single expression on his face for even a moment in the film! Whether he is making out with the porn star, or stealing data from Mr. Hooda’s laptop, or even killing his Godfather, the muscles on his face don’t budge an inch from their positions. Is that how you act Mr. Singh?

Arunoday Singh and Sunny Leone In Jism 2 Movie Stills

4) The storyline, if at all there is any! Even till now, I failed to understand why on earth an Intelligence Bureau officer would make out with a porn star and then hire her as a secret agent on a mission to obtain some data from a terrorist?? If Madam Bhatt could please explain it to me, I would really be enlightened!

5) The pathetic dialogues forcefully mouthed by the actors are another reason which makes the audience go ‘bwaahhhh’ while watching the film. Samples: ‘Ek terrorist ko maarna punya ka kaam hota hai’, ‘Jo aadmi sochta hai ki woh kal khush hoga, who kabhi khush nahin hota.’ I could go on and on but I choose to forget those terrorizing lines!

6) Old habits die hard. Watch the film and you will realize why I am saying this. Panting, panting and more panting! This is what our leading lady keeps doing through the entire length of the film. No matter she is crying, staring, talking, or making love to her partners, Sunny Leone just takes deep breaths in and out. Someone please tell her there are better things to do in front of the camera!

7) Weird characterization of the actors in the film makes me wonder if Pooja Bhatt was attempting to make an erotic thriller or a comedy film. While Randeep’s Kabir listens to songs by Mukesh, Sunny’s Izna runs to and fro between her two lovers! And Arunoday’s Aayan cries more than he drinks, and pleases himself by panning a pencil torch over Izna’s body while she is asleep. Whatever all that was supposed to mean!

Randeep Hooda and Sunny Leone In Jism 2 Movie Stills

8) The climax of the film confirms why Jism 2 didn’t work at the box office. Aayan gives Izna those cute little homoeopathic medicine bottles to poison Kabir’s coffee, and our Izna thinks that Kabir is a fool who will happily gulp the coffee?? As if he won’t find out what she had been doing all along? Give us a break folks!

9) The overall pace of the film is too slow, and the script is not well-bound. As can be explained, if your shoe laces are not tied properly, you are bound to trip and fall on your face. This is exactly what happens to the film as well. If only Beti Bhatt could weave the story properly, there could have been some saving moments for the film and us too! But alas! (Sigh!)

10) The music of the film and the costumes of Sunny Leone adds petrol to the fire in which Jism 2 burns. Apart from Maula, the other songs fail to strike a chord. And so does the background music. Unlike most other Bhatt films, which generally score well for their music, Jism 2 fails even in this area! Poor guys!

Hunt for your favorite buys in the ongoing sale season and give this film a miss. Or better still, if you have been deprived of sleep for quite some time, then you are most welcome to go and catch Jism 2 in your nearest theatre!

Sunny Leone and Arunoday Singh (Jism 2 Movie Stills)

Even though the movie might look like a box office disaster, the fact that it was made on a small budget of 7-8 Crores makes it a profitable venture. The movie is now headed toward a 1st week box office collection of 25 Crores.

The release of Gangs of Wasseypur 2 this week will badly effect the box office destiny of Jism 2 and Ek Tha Tiger won’t let it breathe in the following week. Jism 2 will make whatever money it can(which will be a considerably small amount) this week itself.

Even though the euphoria settled down after Friday shows were concluded, the film had already made huge moolah with as astonishing 7.5 crores coming on the opening day. Add to that one crore which had come the previous day from paid previews and the film was already sitting pretty on 8.5 crores.

Sunny Leone and Randeep Hooda In Jism 2 Movie Stills

Expectedly though, the film showed a massive fall (around 30%-40%) on Saturday and this was due to two reasons. First and foremost the film had seen its saturation point being reached on Friday which means it would have been near impossible for it to show similar collections on the next day too. Moreover, not just were majority of reviews negative, even the word of mouth was tilted more towards bad to average. Though critical appreciation or rejection hardly matters for a film belonging to this genre, audience verdict was important. That hasn’t really been in the favour of this film which means there would be struggle from this point on.

Commercially though, the job has been done for the film. When it was expected that the film would at best collect 12 crores over the weekend, that number was reached by close of Saturday itself. The film is now sitting pretty on a 20 crore base after a good Sunday, which is simply huge for a product that has been made on a very low cost. This also goes on to show that right costing, brand quotient as well as smart marketing with some element of curiosity attached to a product can aid a film arriving into a safety zone sooner than later.

Meanwhile other two releases of the week, ‘Krishna aur Kans‘ and ‘Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai‘, opened to empty houses in whichever centres they were released. With collections reading in thousands, even the print and publicity cost won’t be recovered for these films. In that aspect ‘From Sydney With Love played’ it’s cards smartly and postponed it’s arrival instead of getting sandwiched in a horde.

The 1st weekend of Jism 2 is as follows:

Thursday(Paid Previews) – 1.05 Crores

Friday – 7.50 Crores

Saturday – 4.50 Crores

Sunday – 7.00 Crores (Early Estimate)

Randeep Hooda and Sunny Leone In Jism 2 Movie

What can be disastrous for the distributors is the fact that the box office was worse affected in regions where Jism 2 had taken a good start on Friday. Consider CI, CP and Rajasthan and you will realize that the movie witnesses a drop of over 30-40% on it’s very second day. This is indeed astounding as the box office collections generally increase on weekends.

As per claims the movie was made out of a budget of 6-7 Crores. Add to it another 4 Crores on publicity. The Bhatt’s it seems have nothing to lose in this game. However, the distributors which bought the movies for humongous amounts of money will suffer the most in this case. There is no reason to believe that Jism 2 will recover on Sunday. The movie it seems will end up a disaster at the Indian box office.

Sunny Leone and Arunoday Singh In Jism 2 Movie

However, the initial hype will be over now and bad reviews and negative word of mouth and social media trends will have a disastrous effect on the box office journey of the film. The opening collections have been pretty decent but if it doesn’t manage to gross some better numbers in the weekend, the movie might end up being a disaster for the distributors. The only thing which might help Jism 2 as of now is the fact that it was the single big release this Friday.

The movie is one of the most highly anticipated ones this year. Huge publicity including twitter, Facebook and YouTube campaigns have created a hype of sorts.

From the looks of it the movie it seems will make 5.50 Crores nett on Day 1 at the Indian box office. This isn’t a very big number but a pretty decent number for an ‘A’ rated film in India. The 1st weekend will be crucial for predicting the fate of the film at the box office.

Sunny Leone and Randeep Hooda In Jism 2 Movie Poster

Star Cast: Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda, Arunoday Singh and Arif Zakaria.

What’s Good: The titillating skin show; the music.

What’s Bad: The flaky storyline; the scenes and dialogues that are unintentionally comic; Arunoday Singh’s expressions.

Loo Break: None.

Verdict: Jism 2 is paisa vasool for watching Sunny Leone.

Watch or Not: Watch it for Sunny Leone’s much-hyped debut in Bollywood.

Rating:

Is Jism 2 paisa vasool for watching Sunny Leone? Yes.

That’s probably the only question you need to ask yourself before watching Jism 2 because you definitely aren’t going for the aesthetics (which are good in the film).

Don’t be surprised, Jism 2 does have a plot, albeit a flaky one. Izna (Sunny Leone) is a porn star who gets recruited by Intelligence Agency officer Ayaan (Arunoday Singh).  Ayaan’s boss (Arif Zakaria) explains that Izna’s mission is to get close to rogue officer Kabir (Randeep Hooda), who was once Izna’s boyfriend.

The officers claim that Kabir once worked with them, went bonkers, decided to turn messiah and is bumping off other officers and ministers in his quest to clean the world. Now they don’t want to just kill Kabir and end the whole mess, they want to find some crucial data that he stores in his laptop. And for this they need Izna to waltz back into his life.

Izna decides to help the Agency and moves next door to Kabir in Sri Lanka, with Ayaan pretending to be her fiancé. At first Kabir refuses to recognize her, but he later gives in with all his Jism. Although he suspects Izna, Kabir begs her to marry him. Partly because her plan of getting the information from him fails and partly because she still loves Kabir, Izna agrees.

The rest of the film is actually just an excuse to watch Izna’s skin show, so don’t really worry about Kabir-Izna-Ayaan.

Randeep Hooda and Sunny Leone in Jism 2 Movie Stills

Jism 2 Review: Script Analysis

Mahesh Bhatt just keeps the basic ingredients to make a potboiler. Not much of the script or story make sense, but they’re just scenes for letting Sunny Leone do what she does best. The holes in his story and script would make a sieve blush.

An “Intelligence Agency” hires a porn star to do their work? Not a hacker, not a sniper, nor a mercenary; a porn star. If they were so bent on killing him, why did they agree to pay Izna Rs. 10 crore to do the job? Kabir has a friend/guard who protects him all the time. But when Ayaan sneaks into his house and hijacks his laptop, his guard is conveniently missing. And obviously, the Sri Lankan government isn’t bothered when Kabir guns down half a dozen people there. And that’s probably just down the initial 20 minutes.

The plot turns downright stupid at some places like when Ayaan’s boss yells at his heartbroken subordinate, “Agar mujhe cancer hotey huey main ye kar sakta hu, to tum kyu nahi?!” That’s 2 seconds after this cancer-patient boss is thrusting a syringe down his arm. What has that got to do with the plot? Nothing. Sunny smooches Randeep a few moments later, so you can forget about it. The dialogues are alright. There’s an oil-massage scene, one near a pool, a semi-strip etc.; these should keep the male audiences happy.

Jism 2 Review: Star Performances

Sunny Leone can barely act. Most of her scenes involve heaving to accentuate her ample bosoms: either pining/worrying for Kabir or in some erotic scene. The tough-officer-in-love does not suit Arunoday Singh and he ends up with unintentionally funny expressions on his face in the emotional scenes. Randeep Hooda is quite good as Kabir, but he mouths too many dialogues through grit-teeth. Arif Zakaria is a joke as Arunoday’s superior.

Jism 2 Review: Direction, Music & Technical Aspects

Pooja Bhatt has done a very good job as the director (even with this hackneyed plot). The movie looks good and doesn’t disappoint those who’ve come to watch Sunny. Vicky Goswami, Arko Pravo Mukherjee and Mithun Sharmav’s music is excellent. Maula and Yeh Jism songs stand out. Editing by Devendra Murdeshwar is alright. Nigam Bomzan’s cinematography is beautiful!

Jism 2 Review: The Last Word

Sunny Leone shows off her sexy body and there’s some real good music while she does that. Don’t even bother trying to make sense of the film.

Jism 2 Trailer

Jism 2 releases on 3rd August 2012.

Arunoday Singh Jism 2 Movie Stills

For an actor who has shown his acting capabilities right from the days to ‘Sikander’ to ‘Aisha’ and then ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi’, he is finding his way up in Bollywood. However one wonders if ‘Jism 2‘ may typecast him.

“Well, I don’t think so”, says Arunoday in a confident tone, “I don’t think I can be easily typecast. You have seen me doing different roles right from the days of ‘Sikander’ to ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi’; did you find any similarities? Filmmakers have given me different options and I have done my best to the pick the ones which haven’t been similar to my past work. In fact tomorrow if someone offers me the role of a villain and I like it then I would definitely pick it up. So to answer your question, no I don’t thing ‘Jism 2′ would end up slotting me in erotic roles.”

From the commercial perspective though one can see that ‘Jism 2‘ is indeed his most commercial film till date, what with the Pooja Bhatt directed affair marketing and promoting it quite well.

“Well, as far as the commercial quotient is concerned, Pooja would be the best person to answer that since ‘Jism 2‘ is her baby”, smiles Arunoday, “Clichéd as it may sound but I did the film as it suited my taste and was also very challenging for me. Moreover, I knew for sure that this is one film that many would come to watch. Which actor won’t want that? I also trusted the same and here I am looking forward to how the film finds its audience in days to come.”

Pooja Bhatt, Jism 2 Movie Poster

You really played around well for ‘Jism 2′, isn’t it? From Bipasha to Malliaka and the mystery girl and now Sunny Leone actually in front of media – guess it was all a part of the plan.
Well, I would say that things fell in place. See, you would have noticed that there was so much buzz and speculation around Bipasha in the original ‘Jism’ that there was bound to be curiosity around who would actually replace her in the next instalment of the franchise and do justice to the role. This led to quite a lot of coverage. People started guessing whether it would be the return of Bipasha or the comeback of Mallika Sherawat. Then when there was no news from us around that, there were assumptions being made that it would be a fresh face.

This is when you released the semi-nude picture of the leading lady, albeit with Nathalia Kaul in a veil.
(Smiles) Of course I wanted to add on to the hype. We put together the design which led to further speculations. Of course it worked for us because I realised that the brand by itself had become much bigger now. We didn’t require someone to promote us; we were getting promoted by the sheer strength of the brand.

Well, Sunny did add on to the hype. However, beyond the porn-star profession that she comes with, how has she turned out to be as an actress? If promos are any indication, she seems to be doing reasonably well.
For that we have to give her the entire credit; she has tried to deliver her best. She came to India 50 days before the shooting and went through intensive workshops. We had a dialogue coach who sat with her daily and she memorized her dialogues backwards. Half your battle is won when you do that. Moreover, she definitely looked the part and then it becomes even easier.

You do feel that when an actress finds herself in a natural space, she is bound to do well? This is the reason why for a role of a porn-star you choose her?
Half the mountain was climbed when I cast Sunny for ‘Jism 2‘. For the remaining half, it was on the two us to walk together and make it happen. This comes from my own personal experience. When I look back at my roles in the past, I can see that I did my best when I was put into the space where I was most comfortable in. I was fantastic where I could relate to the setup and plain average when I couldn’t. I think its true for most actors. Take John Abraham as an example. People were not sure if he could pull off ‘Jism’ but I felt that this was his space and he would do well. Today everyone agrees with that.

Jism 2 releases 3rd August, 2012