Bollywood actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt is all set to direct the third instalment of the erotic-thriller franchise Jism.
The film is slated to feature three men and one woman in the lead.
“I will start working on Jism 3 this year, and the film will release sometime in 2017. It has to be the boldest movie yet. I have decided to completely shake up things this time,” she said.
The franchise has often served as a springboard into Bollywood. The 2003 film, Jism, starred Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, who used it to make his Bollywood debut. The sequel, released in 2013, marked the debut of Sunny Leone in the Hindi film industry.
But will Bhatt introduce someone new and unknown to the mix? Bhatt said, “I don’t know, let the speculations begin.”
Bhatt talks about making things more risque, but the director of movies including Paap and Holiday, doesn’t seem too concerned about the censor board. “I have no issues with them. If I don’t agree with something they are asking for, I fight. Jism had one cut, excess amount of boldness was toned down in the sequel, my other film Sadak faced issues and Zakhm was banned. So this talk of filmmakers not having freedom of expression is not new, it has been happening.”
Bhatt said when she was dealing with an obscenity case for her film Rog, no one spoke up in support. “I fought my battle for the Rog obscenity case alone for eight years. Not one person from the industry came out in support. So now deal with the problems. It’s too easy to join the crowd and hurl stones.”
She is currently producing Richa Chadha’s upcoming film, Cabaret.
