Making love like a porn star

It seems things are heating up on and off the set of the anticipated erotic thriller Jism 2. Subhash K Jha of BollywoodHungama.com reports on the action.

BACK from location in Sri Lanka, shooting for the new Pooja Bhatt erotic thriller, Jism 2, Randeep Hooda is hell-bent on proving that Bhatt protégé Emraan Hashmi doesn’t have a monopoly over erotic activities in the films produced by the Bhatts.

Randeep, we hear, is giving his all – and we mean all – to the love-making scenes with Sunny Leone in Jism 2. Says a source from the location: “For Randeep it’s very simple logic, really. He is a method actor. When he played a sozzled cop in Jannat 2, he was so much into the bottle that he had to kick the addiction at the end of the film. Now, when he’s got scorching love scenes with Sunny Leone, Randeep has pulled out all stops to make the sex scenes look authentic.”

Apparently, when Randeep was asked how he’d cope with Leone – who is an expert in love-making on camera – Randeep said: “I can teach her a trick or two.”

However, now Randeep refutes the raunchy remark and confesses: “All I said was, ‘She’s not the only expert’. And I maintain that. I am certainly making every effort to be as convincing in Jism 2.”

In Jism 2, Randeep plays a character named Kabir, an expert lover, a first-rate shooter and a cello player. Quite a lethal blend.

Explains Randeep: “Quite often you find these ruthless assassins have an artistic side. So my super-talented director Pooja Bhatt decided that my character kills and plays the cello in his free time.” Randeep took cello lessons and says he now plays “for those who care to hear me”.

After the resounding response to his performance in Jannat 2, Randeep gets a lot of attention. He is philosophical about it, saying: “While I accept all the praise gratefully and gleefully, I can’t allow it to go to my head. I didn’t allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn’t allow success to bloat my head. I can’t hold on to the praise I’m getting for Jannat 2. It will bog me down.

“I believe in an ancient fable about a seaside monastery where the monks created the most beautiful figures with sand and pebbles and the moment one figure was made they destroyed it and moved on to another. I, too, need to reinvent my skills constantly in an unbroken stream,” he said.

For the role of the angst-laden cop in Jannat 2, Randeep worked double-hard on his dialogue. “It was Jean-Luc Godard who said there are two performances by every screen actor. One that the audiences see and the other that they hear. When I finished what I had to do on screen, I went back to my character and gave his emotions a voice.”

For now, it will be only edgy, gritty characters for Randeep: “I tried the light comic stuff in films like Love Khichdi and Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye. It didn’t work. Then my films were run down to the ground. Why should I not tap into my forte now that I’m finally on my feet again?”

In an April interview with the Hindustan Times, Pooja Bhatt said she cast Sunny in the film for the same reason she signed John Abraham for Jism: “It was instinct. I broke the perception that models can’t act with Jism. Now I am looking forward to breaking another perception by signing Sunny Leone, a porn star, in Jism 2.”

She said while Jism was a love story for a mature audience, |Jism 2 was for a mature adult audience. She said they were looking at raising the bar emotionally and sensually with a story of the human heart, passion, revenge and betrayal. – Additional information sourced from wikipedia.com