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in a voice that poets would envy, plays the cello and allows the woman he loves to lead him to destruction, hooda brings to his part a lacerated hurt and a resonant retributive glory.

This is the actor’s second triumph in a mahesh Bhatt script in a row after Jannat 2 he plays the two selfdestructive characters on different scales, but equally effectively. If only hooda had taken off all those religious rings in his finger. They don’t go with his character.

The passion-play is underpinned by a whole lot of evocative background songs and on-screen poetic utterances that remind us of the close relationship between violence and art. What segregates the outcast from the messiah is the way the talent of self-expression is channelised.

hooda’s Kabir is genius gone the wrong way. more dreamy than steamy, Jism 2 takes us far beyond the body experience into three tortured souls looking for sensual salvation. Pooja Bhatt delivers a good-looking film with an arresting inner life. This may not be the right evening out for those who found last fortnight’s “Super Kool” film entertaining. But those who feel life in the movies is not always about the good times, Jism 2 makes its point forcibly.

Subhash K.Jha

FILm: Jism 2

CAST: Randeep Hooda, Arunoday Singh, Sunny Leone

DIrECTOr: Pooja Bhatt