Pooja Bhatt: ‘Jism 2’ has worked for us!

‘Jism 2’, which featured the Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone as a mainstream Bollywood actress, has racked in an amount of Rs 21 crore in its opening weekend and the director of the movie Pooja Bhatt is pretty happy with her film’s box office performance.

The amount might not look much but it is very good for a product, which was made with a total cost of 6 to 7 crore.

In ‘Jism 2’ Bhatt featured the Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone as the female lead whereas the likes of Randeep Hooda and Arunoday Singh played the male leads in the movie.

Normally males hold the fort in an Indian movie but in ‘Jism 2’ it was Leone who was the main reason behind the film’s success. However, while speaking on her inclusion, Bhatt admitted casting Leone was a big risk.

Bhatt insisted that normally films don’t do much business in the month of Ramadan but still her film was able to generate an impressive amount.

“I was anxious. The film had no big star cast, we did not have Salman Khan in the film but it did quite well at the box office. I was taking a bigger risk by having Sunny in my film putting her in front of a conservative crowd here. People thought with Sunny in the film, they will get to see more of sexual and sensual content but that was a myth,” Pooja said.

“The film has earned Rs 21 crore, I think we have got a great opening. Generally filmmakers do not release their movies during Ramzan as not many people go to watch it. But this film has done well especially in places like UP, Bhopal, Punjab and others. It worked for us,” she said.

Sunny Leone, who rose to fame during her stint in the ‘Bigg Boss’ house, is now thinking seriously about her Bollywood career. The adult actress will now be seen in ‘Ragini MMS 2’.

Pooja Bhatt on the other hand is planning to take ‘Jism’ franchise ahead by making the third and fourth sequel.

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