You've seen Indian-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone covered in Jism before, but not quite like this. Sunny returned to the motherland for a shot at Bollywood stardom in Jism 2, which is supposedly some sort of thriller but looks more like series of excuses to show Sunny in a bikini combined with sappy Bollywood musical numbers.
Sunny's casting caused an uproar on the conservative subcontinent, where onscreen nudity is almost unheard of and the production of pornography is banned. So although there's no actual nudity in the film, 628 million horny Indian men translated into a strong opening weekend for Jism 2 in India. But its long-term prospects appear flaccid as word-of-mouth caused a sharp decline in ticket sales after its opening weekend and it flopped miserably overseas.
Twitch Film's Charlie Hobbs, one of a handful of overseas critics to review the film, says:
"Even with an actual porn star in the cast, they couldn't manage to make the sex scenes very sexy. Everyone looks really good semi-clothed, but no one seems comfortable at all, even Leone looks like she's out of her element…This kind of film helped me transition from a boy to a man in the '90s, thanks to the loving embrace of Skinemax, but those films were able to actually deliver on their promise enough to leave their audience satisfied. Jism 2 doesn't, won't, or can't. Whatever the excuse, it adds up to failure."
And Anupama Chopra of the English-language Hindustan Times (reprinted in the New York Daily News), simply says "For an erotic film, everyone talks way too much."
Talk about a limp reception.
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