New Delhi:
It's with a litany of woes that adult film actress Sunny Leone makes her big Bollywood debut today. Jism 2, directed by Pooja Bhatt and co-starring actors Arunoday Singh and Randeep Hooda, has been the subject of protests and controversies even before it released:
1. Yesterday, the mayor and municipal commissioner of Mumbai confirmed that this poster of the film had been removed from buses, bus depots and electric poles in the city. The poster, showing a reclining nude female figure covered by a thin sheet of fabric, was deemed objectionable by an NCP corporator who filed a letter of complaint.
2. It also appears the poster may not be original. It looks very similar to this poster for a Goan fashion by designer Felix Bendish dating from 2010. And it may not be Sunny Leone at all on the Jism 2 poster, but model turned item girl Nathalia Kaur.
3. Jism 2's title track has also been accused of being copied from a Turkish song, a charge that the film's music director Arko Pravo Mukherjee denies.
4. In Amritsar, local activists held a demonstration against the film. They burnt effigies of Sunny and director Pooja Bhatt.
5. And a local resident has asked the Allahabad High Court to issue a stay order against the film, objecting to Sunny's presence in it.
1. Yesterday, the mayor and municipal commissioner of Mumbai confirmed that this poster of the film had been removed from buses, bus depots and electric poles in the city. The poster, showing a reclining nude female figure covered by a thin sheet of fabric, was deemed objectionable by an NCP corporator who filed a letter of complaint.
2. It also appears the poster may not be original. It looks very similar to this poster for a Goan fashion by designer Felix Bendish dating from 2010. And it may not be Sunny Leone at all on the Jism 2 poster, but model turned item girl Nathalia Kaur.
3. Jism 2's title track has also been accused of being copied from a Turkish song, a charge that the film's music director Arko Pravo Mukherjee denies.
4. In Amritsar, local activists held a demonstration against the film. They burnt effigies of Sunny and director Pooja Bhatt.
5. And a local resident has asked the Allahabad High Court to issue a stay order against the film, objecting to Sunny's presence in it.
