# Jism 2 (जिस्म 2)
**Jism 2** (जिस्म 2) is a 2012 Hindi-language erotic thriller directed by [Pooja Bhatt](https://www.edgepedia.org/pooja-bhatt) and the sequel to the 2003 film *Jism*. It stars [Sunny Leone](https://www.edgepedia.org/sunny-leone) as Izna, an adult film star recruited by an intelligence officer to entrap Kabir ([Randeep Hooda](https://www.edgepedia.org/randeep-hooda)), a rogue assassin who was once her lover, with Arunoday Singh as the officer Ayaan Thakur. The film marked Leone's debut in Hindi cinema and was released in India on 3 August 2012 with an adults-only (A) certificate.[1](https://thereviewmonk.com/movie/jism-2/) • [2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) • [3](https://thetvdb.com/movies/jism-2)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Release | 3 August 2012 in India (Box Office India lists 2 August 2012)[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) • [4](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/cast_crew.php?movieid=770) |
| Director / producers | Directed by Pooja Bhatt; produced by Pooja Bhatt and Dino Morea[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) |
| Banners | Clockwork Films Private Limited and Fish Eye Network[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) |
| Writers | Mahesh Bhatt (screenplay and dialogue); Shagufta Rafique (story)[4](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/cast_crew.php?movieid=770) |
| Lead cast | Sunny Leone as Izna, Randeep Hooda as Kabir, Arunoday Singh as Ayaan, Arif Zakaria as Guru[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666/fullcredits/) |
| Music | Mithoon, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Rushk, and Abdul Baasith Saeed[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) |
| Certification / runtime | A (adults only); Box Office India lists 133 minutes, other listings 130 to 132 minutes[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) • [4](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/cast_crew.php?movieid=770) • [3](https://thetvdb.com/movies/jism-2) |
| Reception | IMDb rating 3.1/10 from about 3,800 votes; critics rated it around 2 of 5 on average[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666) • [7](https://filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2012/jism-2-reviews-ratings-film-critics-verdict-098040.html) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
An intelligence agency recruits Izna, an adult film star, to set a trap for Kabir, a feared assassin who was once romantically involved with her; the situation grows complicated when the officer Ayaan Thakur falls in love with her.[3](https://thetvdb.com/movies/jism-2) In the framing used by the film's promotion, a porn star is hired by a dashing intelligence officer as a "honey-trap" for a dreaded assassin, forcing her to confront her past and make an impossible choice that puts her life in jeopardy.[10](https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/jism-2) A contemporary review in the *Bangalore Mirror* described the plot as hinging not on sex but on computer data held by a soldier-turned-rogue terrorist hiding in Sri Lanka, and noted it as a rehash of the Bhatts' own film *Gangster*.[11](https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/reviews/jism-2-all-body-no-soul/articleshow/21332794.cms)
## Production and casting
Pooja Bhatt directed the film and produced it with [Dino Morea](https://www.edgepedia.org/dino-morea) under the banners Clockwork Films Private Limited and Fish Eye Network.[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) Mahesh Bhatt wrote the screenplay and dialogue, and Shagufta Rafique wrote the story.[4](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/cast_crew.php?movieid=770)
**Casting Sunny Leone.** Leone, an Indo-Canadian adult film actress, had risen to fame in India after participating in the reality show *Bigg Boss 5* in 2011, which she later described as a turning point in her career.[8](https://noolaham.net/project/809/80821/80821.pdf) In a July 2012 interview, Pooja Bhatt said she had first read about Leone in 2002, when a newspaper described her as the first Indian porn star, and that the makers had considered her for *Jism* ten years earlier but her agent replied that she had been signed by Penthouse. Bhatt said Leone was cast because she had a persona that did not need to be established, and that she adjusted the character once Leone joined.[9](https://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/2012/jul/27/slide-show-1-interview-with-pooja-bhatt.htm) Bhatt also publicly rejected descriptions of the film as semi-pornographic, insisting it was erotic but had more to offer in script and performances.[9](https://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/2012/jul/27/slide-show-1-interview-with-pooja-bhatt.htm)
A piece of trivia recorded on IMDb states that the film's two posters, one showing a woman covered by a wet sheet and another showing a woman walking toward a waterfall, both feature actress [Nathalia Kaur](https://www.edgepedia.org/nathalia-kaur) rather than Sunny Leone.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666)
## Music and crew
The music was composed by Mithoon, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Rushk, and Abdul Baasith Saeed, who also appear among the lyricists alongside Munish Makhija, Unoosha, and [Neelesh Misra](https://www.edgepedia.org/neelesh-misra).[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) • [12](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/jism-2-15097/cast-crew) Nigam Bomzan was the cinematographer, Devendra Murdeshwar the editor, and Anna Singh the costume designer.[2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) • [5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666/fullcredits/) Playback singers listed for the soundtrack include Ali Azmat, Unoosha, KK, Sonu Kakkar, Rushk, and [Shreya Ghoshal](https://www.edgepedia.org/shreya-ghoshal), and the music was released on T-Series.[12](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/jism-2-15097/cast-crew)
## Release and box office
The film was slated for 3 August 2012, though in some theaters it opened on Thursday night, and it carried an A certificate in India.[13](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/jism-2-15097) • [2](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/) Box Office India classified the film as a "Semi Hit" and recorded a Nizam/Andhra nett total of ₹17,300,000 with a distributor share of ₹9,000,000; the first week in that territory earned ₹14,800,000.[14](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/circuit_collection.php?area=domestic&cityid=14&movieid=770) IMDb lists a worldwide gross of $47,109.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666)
## Critical reception
Critical reception was largely negative. A tally of nine rated reviews counted one positive, two mixed, and six negative, with critics attacking the screenplay, dialogue, and pacing while praising the music and Leone's screen presence.[1](https://thereviewmonk.com/movie/jism-2/) Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama rated it 2 of 5, writing that the lackluster screenplay and sluggish pace were deterrents despite Leone as the film's USP, while crediting the soulful music and top-notch cinematography capturing the locales of Sri Lanka.[15](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/critic-review/hey-walla-jism-2-movie-review/) Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave 3.5, calling it more than just another "booby" trap of a film and praising Bomzan's camerawork and Hooda's performance.[7](https://filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2012/jism-2-reviews-ratings-film-critics-verdict-098040.html) [Anupama Chopra](https://www.edgepedia.org/anupama-chopra) of *Hindustan Times* gave 4.0 but called the film an anti-climactic let-down, while Shubhra Gupta of *The Indian Express* gave it 1.5 stars and called it a crashing disappointment on the erotic-thriller count.[7](https://filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2012/jism-2-reviews-ratings-film-critics-verdict-098040.html) • [16](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/bare-all-dare-nothing/) On IMDb the film holds a 3.1/10 rating from about 3,800 users.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666)
## Place in the series and Leone's career
*Jism 2* is the second installment of the series that began with the 2003 hit *Jism*, which starred [Bipasha Basu](https://www.edgepedia.org/bipasha-basu) and [John Abraham](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-abraham); Bollywood Hungama noted a huge disparity between the two films.[15](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/critic-review/hey-walla-jism-2-movie-review/) For Sunny Leone, the film was her Bollywood debut and the start of a Hindi film career; she later said that leaving her career in the Western adult film industry, her journey began with Pooja Bhatt's *Jism 2*.[17](https://www.theindianpanorama.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/TIP-August-19-Dual-Edition.pdf) In a 2012 interview recorded during promotion, Leone said that working with Pooja Bhatt, herself a former actor, was a pleasure, and that co-stars Randeep Hooda and [Arunoday Singh](https://www.edgepedia.org/arunoday-singh) were relaxed while filming the intimate scenes.[18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYnd7xbOXg)
## References
1. [Jism 2 (2012) Movie Review — 9 Critic Reviews, TheReviewMonk](https://thereviewmonk.com/movie/jism-2/)
2. [Jism – 2 Cast List, Bollywood Hungama](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/cast/)
3. [जिस्म २, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/movies/jism-2)
4. [Jism 2 — Cast & Crew, Box Office India](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/cast_crew.php?movieid=770)
5. [Jism 2 (2012) — Full Cast & Crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666/fullcredits/)
6. [Jism 2 (2012), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226666)
7. [Jism 2 Reviews Rating | Film Critics Verdict, Filmibeat](https://filmibeat.com/bollywood/features/2012/jism-2-reviews-ratings-film-critics-verdict-098040.html)
8. [Sunny Leone Wants to Be Taken Seriously in Bollywood, Monsoon Journal (January 2013)](https://noolaham.net/project/809/80821/80821.pdf)
9. ['Jism 2 is not semi porn' — Interview with Pooja Bhatt, Rediff.com](https://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/2012/jul/27/slide-show-1-interview-with-pooja-bhatt.htm)
10. [Where to Watch Jism 2 (2012) Online, Plex](https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/jism-2)
11. [Jism 2: All body, no soul, Bangalore Mirror](https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/reviews/jism-2-all-body-no-soul/articleshow/21332794.cms)
12. [Jism 2 (2012) — Complete Cast & Crew, BollywoodMDB](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/jism-2-15097/cast-crew)
13. [Jism 2 (2012) — Cast, Reviews, Release Date, BollywoodMDB](https://www.bollywoodmdb.com/movie/jism-2-15097)
14. [Jism 2 — Circuit Collections, Box Office India](https://www.boxofficeindia.com/circuit_collection.php?area=domestic&cityid=14&movieid=770)
15. [Jism – 2 Movie Review by Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama](https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movie/jism-2/critic-review/hey-walla-jism-2-movie-review/)
16. [Bare All, Dare Nothing, The Indian Express](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/bare-all-dare-nothing/)
17. [The Indian Panorama, August 19 edition](https://www.theindianpanorama.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/TIP-August-19-Dual-Edition.pdf)
18. [Sunny Leone Exclusive Interview | Jism 2, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYnd7xbOXg)
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