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Pooja keen to remake her father's "Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain"

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 4:33 AM IST

"I would love to revisit my father's film 'Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain' which was banned by the Censor board. This film was a bit too ahead of its time. This is the kind of film that I would like to look at and may re-visit," Pooja told PTI.

"Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain", a drama directed by Mahesh Bhatt, featured Gulshan Arora, Kabir Bedi, Mukesh Bhatt and Prema Narayan.

The movie, about two men and a prostitute, was banned for its "objectionable content."

Meanwhile, 40-year-old Pooja is looking forward to the release of her upcoming film "Jism 2", starring Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone, Arunoday Singh and Randeep Hooda.

"The response to 'Jism' was overwhelming and we were quite certain that there is a market for that. I remember when I was working on the sequel lot of people in the industry told me, 'What kind of a film is it, in the poster you have not shown the face of the girl, who is going to watch the movie?

"But I am happy with the response the trailer and the songs have got... People have loved it," she said.

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"Jism 2" is a sequel to the 2003 Bipasha Basu-John Abraham starrer of the same name and it is already making headlines for its erotic content.

"In Bollywood mostly films are made for male audience, keeping a male viewer in mind and that is why the item song, an item girl. I think that equation should change. Sensuality should not be a male domain, it is high time a woman claims it," Pooja said.

"This film is fiercely a female gaze. Though there is sensuality in 'Jism 2', we push the envelope, there is far more than that," she added.

However, the director said that enacting the emotional part was a challenge for Sunny.

"She is comfortable with her body as this is what she does for her living. There were certain things that she did well and with few others she had difficulty. She had limitations as she is not a trained actor. But she did a good job," she said.

  

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First Published: Jul 29 2012 | 12:35 PM IST

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