Arunoday Singh in Sudhir Mishra's New New Delhi?

Sudhir Mishra's next film will be entitled New New Delhi. No prizes for guessing that it would be set in Delhi. New Delhi, to be more precise. But what is this additional 'New' in the title New Delhi?

Sudhir who has been threatening to relocate his filmmaking roots to the city where he grew up says there there are three distinctly different Delhis in today's times. 

There is old Delhi, New Delhi and there is now the new New Delhi where an ambitious breed of brokers, middlemen, mediators, political lobbyists and wheelerdealers rule the roost. My New New Delhi would go into that world of ambitious go-getters who have turned Delhi into a curious mixture of Shanghai and Washington. 
The film's hero would be what Sudhir describes as a fixer. `It's the story of the rise of a fixer in my new New Delhi. The city's new moral landscape would unfold through this character. 

Mishra wants to cast his blue-eyed boy Arunoday Singh in the central role. But there is a problem. Arunoday's body language and personality is very urbane. I need an actor who makes his way from rural North India to the heart of the Capital. If Arunoday would be willing to work on his accent and body language he can be my fixer.

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I made a lucky entry in Bollywood: Arunoday Singh

Being a Bollywood actor wasn't exactly on actor Arunoday Singh's mind a few years ago.

The young actor says, `Well, my journey into Bollywood has been quite blessed so far. I have got work without much of the struggle other many newcomers have to go through. I made a lucky entry - not a flashy or loud one.

Now, I have to work hard to sustain myself in this industry. Luck can be quite fickle, you see. Frankly, I hadn't aspired to be a Bollywood actor. I have spent a large part of my life in the US.

But, having a lifestyle, work and visa simultaneously in America is an uphill task. At one point, I had to make the decision to try and find some work in India.` Well Arunoday, we like your honesty!

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Movie Review: Jism 2 is an over hyped erotic thriller

Cast: Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda, Arunodaya Singh, Arif Zakaria

Director : Poojha Bhatt

Rating : **1/2

With tons of hypes and hullabaloo surrounding the season's most-awaited movie Jism 2, cine goers long wait to catch the hot Sunny Leone in action finally gets over. After soaring the apprehensions, curiosity and speculation arena, finally the most anticipated sex-thriller saga of the year Jism-2 made it to the celluloid.

Eversince the promulgation about Jism-2 and its leading lady was made, the gossip mills pertaining to the movie never ran out of fuel. 

So finally the erotic saga appeared on the silver screen, fetching an opening day occupancy of over 92% at the multiplexes, which primarily comprised of people who wanted to have the first glimpse of Sunny's maiden performance in decorous stream of cinema.

Synopsis
Jism-2 is an erotic tale comprising of lust, sex and betrayal, blended with a bleak dose of action and love where a porn star (or so called porn star), is hired by an intelligence officer to set a honey-trap in order to purloin the sensitive information from a dreaded assassin. 
Story:
The story of the Jism-2 begins with the confession of Izna(Sunny Leone), who is being hired by an Intelligence officer Ayaan ( Arunoday Singh) whom Izna meets in a club.

In the hotel room Ayaan tells Izna, that he is an Intelligence services officer and want to have a deal with her in order to purloin some highly sensitive documents from the possession of a dreaded assassin Kabir Wilson ( Randeep Hooda). 

As the story proceeds, Ayaan takes Izna to Srilanka where the duo meets Ayaan's boss Mr Guru( Arif Zakaria), who briefs Izna about the entire mission. 

With an objective of intruding into the abode of of Kabir, Ayaan and Izna rents an accommodation next to Kabir's home. And from her begins a journey of sex, lust and betrayal, where Sunny tries to lure Kabir in order to accomplish her objective of getting those secret documents. 
Script
It won't be wrong to say that, Jism-2 is a tale with a flimsy spine, which looks like a saga written to secure a berth for Sunny in Bollywood. As far as story line and its flow is concerned then script provides and abrupt start to the movie where the narration of the Sunny with in no time is followed by the action mode.

Script of the Jism-2 seems to be hasty because the succession of the sequences is jotted in such a manner that it somewhat becomes simply indigestible for the cine goers. With Izna meeting Ayaan and with in no time accepting his offer of becoming his pawn to purloin the sensitive information from Kabir is one of the conspicuous example of this.

Through out the course of story, the script seemed to be pouncing towards obtruded intimate sequences. As the story proceeds, the primary plot seems to be getting ostracized. Though Jism-2 is a typical combo of "love, lust and dhokha", but still it completely fails in developing a concrete plot to keep the fans cine sense glued to the big screen. 
Dialogues: 
As far as the dialogues are concerned, then Jism-2 has unconventional romantic dialogues, dabbled in the treacle of philosophy, which again lead to the emergence of monotony in already crumbling script.

In dialogues department writer Shagufta Rafique tried to lends a certain zing to the brew, but could not succeed in doing anything messianic for Jism-2.

Screenplay / Direction 
As a director Pooja has just one commercial success in her kitty and that is "Paap", therefore in order to make Jism -2 a major success Pooja ran from pillar to post and didn't leave any stone unturned to meet the objective. But once again this Bhatt angle failed in delivering an entertaining delight to the fans.

In the first half pace of the screenplay seems to be rushing to have a rendezvous with the erotic sequences which are somewhat unnecessarily incorporated in the story to titillate the libidinal chords of the masses. As the story proceeds screenplay tries to touch the issues of terrorism also but could not succeed in vitalising it on the screen. 
With a running pace of where an intelligence officer meets a damsel, gets cozy with her and with in no time reveals his identity and hires her for a mission. It looked like as if in the screenplay's sole emphasis is on exposing those voluptuous curves of Sunny. In the second half with excess of drama poking in the flow of the screenplay further deteriorates.

As far as direction of Pooja is concerned, then Jism-2 no where looked like a cine flick from a seasoned director, who knows how to knit an erotic-thriller to offer an entertaining delight to the cine buffs. 

Inspite of having the patronage and legacy of legendary director Mahesh Bhatt, Pooja completely failed in extracting a praiseworthy expressiveness from her cine pawns, who were constantly seen struggling to get in the skin of their characters.

As far as technical aspects of Jism-2 are concerned, then they looked quite focused on exhibiting those stupendous curves of Sunny and exotic shooting locations. Though the camera work of the movie was somewhat good, but at times its extreme propinquity to Sunny over exposed the aging effect of this gorgeous damsel. 

Acting / Performances 
Well as far as performances of the protagonists are concerned, then except Randeep the entire star cast seems to be struggling to showcase a praiseworthy performance.

Eversince the promulgation of Sunny, as the leading lady of Jism-2 there was a flurry of hypes and speculations about her potential to perform in a decorous stream of cinema.
In Jism-2 this Indo Canadian porn star completely failed in leaving any impact on the fans by her performance.In the movie Sunny appeared lacking in the elementary acting skills and even failed in assimilating the expressiveness to her character. Throughout the movie she looked more of a mannequin who is being casted to showcase a diverse range of skimpy attires. 

In Jism-2, it was only Randeep Hooda who managed to emerge as better performer while playing the character of an assassin. Randeep well carried the character of a lonely assassin and succeeded in leaving some impact on the cine buffs. In nut shall Randeep was better than rest, but not at his best.

If it's about Arunoday, then after seeing his next to perfect performance in "Yeh Saali Zindagi", fans may get disappointed by his performance in Jism-2, where inspite of his best efforts he could not succeed in stepping in the shoes of an intelligence officer. 

Well Arif Zakaria looked completely captivated with in the confines of small screen acting style, and looked like a new comer who is oblivious about the real life persona associated with his onscreen character. 
Music / Lyrics :
Music and lyrics, are the two such departments of Jism-2 which deserves to be accoladed with tons of praises for being the heart touching numbers. Arko Pravo Mukherjee's music is simply mesmerising where all the the tracks seemed to be knitted to tap the emotional chords of the cine-goers. Tracks "Abhi-Abhi", "Maula" and "Darta Hoon Adhoora" are soulful carols. Even the title track "Ye Jism" sung by Ali Azmat is mesmerising.

BO Potential:
Contrary to its pre-release hypes and hullabaloo, Jism-2 is expected to emerge as an average entertainer which may pull the masses, just because of the curiosity associated with it. Jism-2, the story knitted in a flimsy thread may succeed in fetching the gazes of young voyeuristic heads but may fall short of even their expectations.
Verdict: 
To sum up, inspite of having a thick robe of apprehensions and curiosity around it, Jism-2 is an over hyped erotic thriller which even fails in quenching the libidinal pangs of the cine goers, who were expecting a thorough erotic delight from the Bhatts. The only USP that may offer some "Paisa Vasool" solace to cine buffs is a decent dose of erotica.

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This is not the first time I got paid to kiss a girl

"This is not the first time I got paid to kiss a girl," says actor Arunoday Singh tongue-in-cheek when we draw his attention towards his latest project, which is making news for its steamy scenes.

Tall, handsome, warm and witty, the three-film-old actor says he would murder to bag the role of Batman. My ultimate dream is to play my favourite superhero, he says. In a free-wheeling interview, B-S gets him talking about Bollywood, women and family. 

Kiss and tell
Contrary to what people might believe, doing a kissing or lovemaking scene isn't as tough as doing an emotional one. Steamy sequences are choreographed by the director, so you just have to follow the moves (laughs). 

An emotional scene is difficult because you need to bare a part of your inner anguish in front of an entire crew. Whenever I think that I might look wooden in an emotional scene, I feel really nervous!
Sexy me
I am very comfortable with my image of a sex symbol. My mom is so proud and amused to know that women find me hot (laughs). The other day I ran into a woman, and she called me 'delicious'. That was such a compliment. 

I always thought I was tasty and she vindicated my confidence (and ego as well). And the best part was, she wasn't a teenager. She was a lady of experience and discerning taste (winks). 

But my sisters are alarmed at my 'sex symbol' status, and tell girls that they can do better in life than find me hot! The other day I was out with my sister, and a girl came and requested for a picture. My sister asked her, `Really, you want a snap with him?` Nothing beats that!
No politics please!
Though I come from a political Rajput family, my parents have always supported me unconditionally (Arunoday is the grandson of late Congress leader Arjun Singh. His father Ajay Singh is leader of the opposition in Madhya Pradesh State Assembly). 

As individuals, mom and dad are pretty free-spirited and quirky themselves. My mom laughs at my on-screen shenanigans, and is at times, a little embarrassed as well. I am sure my latest skin show will have her throwing the paper over her head (laughs out loud). 

Dad also loves seeing his little fellow on the big screen, and gets highly amused when he meets people who know me as an actor. I have no intention of ever joining politics though!

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Sunny may be an adult star but I'm not scared of doing steamy scenes with her

Arunoday Singh talks about his fears (and it does not include doing steamy scenes with Sunny Leone in 'Jism 2')

His steamy scenes with Sunny Leone in his forthcoming film may be creating a buzz but Arunoday Singh dismisses it off as being part of his job as an actor. His last film outing Yeh Saali Zindagi had him indulge in a smoochfest with co-star Aditi Rao Hydari. That too was just what his character needed him to do on screen.

Arunoday is shooting for a television show that helps contestants overcome their phobias. But he does not shy away from doing erotic stuff on screen if that`s the need of the script, there are other real fears that he has off- screen..
You don`t have any inhibitions of doing bold scenes on screen, so do you have any fears at all?
I fear sharks! I love swimming but am paranoid of being attacked by sharks. It all began after seeing the film Jaws during my younger days. 

Whenever I am in the water even in a swimming pool the paranoia sets in. That`s the kind of impact Jaws had on me. I always feel there is something lurking at the bottom of the pool. That`s the reason I agreed to be on the show.

Would you be interested in the small screen?
At the moment I love acting on the big screen too much to even think of doing something on television. These are just one-off assignments. Last year too I had participated in a reality show. But if there is an offer and if it excites me in anchoring, I perhaps will.

How was it working with Sunny Leone?
Sunny may be an adult star but for me she is like any other co-star. For us it is bringing alive the script and following what the director says. Sunny is very sweet and nice. I must say that she worked hard in getting her dialogues, speech and emotions right. It is great working with an actor who keeps improving all the time.
You have been around for a while but with not many releases?
I don`t want to do anything that I don`t enjoy. I do get offers but I do only what excites me. After Sikander and Yeh Saali Zindagi, I was excited about the film with Pooja Bhatt. I don`t want to do just anything. I was supposed to be in Madhur Bhandarkar`s film but then it did not work out.

What`s coming up next?
I am doing a cameo in Rensil D`Silva`s film that is being produced by Karan Johar.

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Jism-2 boy Arunoday Singh says he is fearless

Actor Arunoday Singh, who is on a roll in his professional life with movies like "Jism 2" and "Buddha In A Traffic Jam", says he is fearless, a fact reinforced by his tall and brawny frame.

The 29-year-old is set to feature as a guest on UTV Bindass' show "Fearless", wherein he will motivate contestants to face their deepest fears.

But what are Arunoday's fears?

"I don't have any kind of phobia, I am a fearless man! But I hate sharks," Arunoday told.

For now, he is looking forward to the release of Pooja Bhatt's "Jism 2", in which he shares screen space with Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone, and actor Randeep Hooda. The movie is an erotic thriller and its trailers suggest it will be quite a steamy affair.

Asked about his experience of shooting for the movie, Arunoday said: "Sunny is such a sweet person and Randeep is a great guy. I enjoyed working with them."

Arunoday, grandson of late politician Arjun Singh, forayed into acting with 2009 film "Sikandar", directed by Piyush Jha.

He followed it up with a cameo in Anil Kapoor's home production "Aisha". The same year, he did Vinay Shukla's take on gender and sexuality in "Mirch".

But it was his work in Sudhir Mishra's 2011 film "Yeh Saali Zindagi", which brought him into limelight and his work was widely appreciated. Now he says he wants to work with the filmmaker again.

"If I would get a chance to act in Sudhir Mishra's film, I will love to do that again," he said.

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No animosity between Arunoday, Randeep

Despite Randeep Hooda being responsible for Arunoday Singh's ouster from a film, the two apparently managed to get along well on the sets of another

Some of our actors know well to draw a line between their professional and their personal lives.

While Randeep Hooda replaced Arunoday Singh in Madhur Bhandarkar’s upcoming heroine-centric film, the two feature in Pooja Bhatt’s forthcoming thriller, featuring Sunny Leone. And it looks like instead of sharing any negative vibe, the two actually got along quite well.

Pooja Bhatt, the director of the film says, “The first time I met them for a narration, they shook hands and were pretty cool. The good part is neither of them is filmy and have a life of their own after pack up.

I could sense the respect that they developed for each other’s work. They both have a different working style and were smart to understand that both of them had to shine for the film to shine. After pack up, we all spent many evenings together.”

While the director adds that the topic of their conversations ranged from sex, films, politics to almost everything under the sun, Pooja adds, “All of us had a strong opinion and neither of them chose to stand politically correct. Arunoday even read out to us some of his writings and gave us an insight into his deepest thoughts. I think it was a special moment.”

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'Jism 2 TV promos will be toned down'

Actor-turned-producer Dino Morea says his forthcoming "Jism 2" is an A-movie and he will launch its television promos Tuesday. The content will be a toned down as compared to the bold online version.


"The TV promos will be censored. We do respect the censor board. What we can't release on TV, we are releasing online. With TV you don't have a choice, but when you will go to see the film, you do have a choice to buy your tickets, " Dino, who is co-producing the film with Pooja Bhatt's Fish Eye Network, told.

"Yes, it is an A-film. We have asked for an A-certificate. The film is in the post production stage right now. The first promo of 'Jism 2' will be released on TV from tomorrow (Tuesday), a censored version. We are planning to release our first trailer with either 'Bol Bachchan' or 'Cocktail', " he added.

Directed by Pooja Bhatt, "Jism 2", a sequel to 2003 release "Jism", has Randeep Hood, Arunoday Singh and Sunny Leone in the cast and it is expected to scorch the screens with its steamy content when it hits screens Aug 3. 

The first time producer Dino claims the response to online promos has been phenomenal. 

"We released our first promo online on Friday and second promo just today (Monday) afternoon. We crossed million hits in 36 hours. The reviews are phenomenal so far."


Always keen to try his hands in production, Dino approached Pooja, who directed him in "Holiday". 


"Pooja and I share a very good relationship...I always wanted to get into production. So I asked Pooja if I could co-produce 'Jism 2' with her. She happily agreed and that is how it happened, " the 37-year-old said.

Mahesh Bhatt, writer of "Jism 2", feels the censored version for TV was necessary to meet the standards set by the censor board. 

"Whenever we release any promos on TV, we need to meet the requirement of U/A certificate by the censor board. You have to alter your promos to meet the standards set by the censor board for TV. But there is no conflict on this." 

"So, basically the uncensored version will go online and a toned down, censored or acceptable version for all age (group) will go on TV. This is our double barrel market planning, " he added.

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You can see Jism 2 songs with adult content only on the internet

Filmmaker Pooja Bhatt has chosen to promote "Jism 2" songs with adult content through internet, "a more than worthy competitor of TV", rather than showing them on television channels.


"We have six songs in 'Jism 2'. Only three cater to a universal audience without losing their essence. The other three cannot be made to seem asexual! Hence, we will only submit to the censor board and plug on TV those songs of 'Jism 2' what WE feel is appropriate for a family audience," Pooja tweeted.

"The three 'Jism 2' songs that cater to the average thinking, discerning, passionate, ADULTS may be viewed freely and by CHOICE across the internet," she added.

The movie, a sequel to the 2003 film, features Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone, with Arunoday Singh and Randeep Hooda. It is expected to be a steamy affair, and so it shouldn't be a surprise if the songs are shot in a certain way. 

Pooja, daughter of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, is glad T-Series, which owns the film's music rights, is in resonance with her decision. 

"Delighted that @_Tseries is in absolute agreement with us with regards to NOT releasing watered down versions of 'Jism 2' trailers on TV. This is the FIRST time a mainstream film has chosen the internet and social media as a MORE than worthy competitor to television," she added.


The actress-turned-director, who went behind the camera for the first time in 2003 for "Paap", says she is happy being different. 


"So THANK YOU censor board. The supposed roadblock you provided is actually a gateway to a brand new, sane and fair way forward for ALL!" Pooja wrote. 

"I refuse to join the schizophrenic creed of filmmakers who peddle smut yet crave 'respectability'. You can't have your cake and eat it too! And if I do not get a 11 p.m. slot on TV for 'Jism 2', I would rather go the DTH way. Amputation of one's inherent vision is for the weak," she added.

"Jism 2" marks Sunny Leone's debut in Bollywood

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Aditi Rao & Arunoday Singh kiss in Yeh Saali Zindagi

Emraan Hashmi breaking the social barriers with Mallika Sherawat in Murder, locking lips with complete passion for the total love-sex murder mystery, has been outdated by yet another lip lock that may turn the heat on.

Arunoday Sing, who has been seen in some passionate sexy scenes locking lips in 'Mirch', gets the better of Mallika Sherawat’s Khwaish having 17 lip locks. Anuroday Singh and Aditi Rao have got the green signal from the sensor board for their Ye Saali Zindagi that consists of 22 hot lip locks.

The movies director Sudhir Mishra has a say over this and says, "If we are showing a couple fallen in love, we'd show them kissing at a moment when they should be, apart from having them shaking their legs hips to a song," he said.

Arunoday and Aditi play a vibrant couple of Delhi having their fair share of quarrels and feel affection for each other. In an interview to a news daily Aditi said that she wasn’t firstly sure of doing it. Fearing of the closest of family members and his husband. But later with the skilled direction of Mishra both were comfortable in each others’ arms.

It wasn't easy to Kiss Arunoday for 22 times in-front of the camera. But with Sudhir’s guidance it became easy and we did it finally, she added.

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