Pooja Bhatt at an event in Mumbai.
Actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt is all set to direct the third instalment of erotic-thriller franchise
Jism.
Pooja said that the film, titled
Jism 3, will be the "boldest" in the series and will feature three men and one woman in the lead role.
"I will start working on
Jism 3 this year and the film will release sometime in 2017. It has to be the boldest movie yet. I have decided to completely shake up things this time," Pooja told PTI.
The 2003 film
Jism starred Bipasha Basu and John Abraham, the latter making his debut in Bollywood. The sequel, released in 2013, marked the debut of former adult star Sunny Leone in the Hindi film industry.
When asked if she will be launching newcomers in the film, Pooja said, "I don't know, let the speculations begin."
She plans to make
Jism 3 the boldest in the franchise, but the actress, who has directed films like
Paap and
Holiday, is not worried about the censor board.
"I have no issues with them. If I don't agree with something they are asking for, I fight.
Jism had one cut; excess amount of boldness was toned down in the sequel, my other film
Sadak faced issues and
Zakhm was banned. So this talk of filmmakers not having freedom of expression is not new, it has been happening," said Pooja.
Pooja said that when she was dealing with an obscenity case for her film
Rog, no one came out in support of her.
"I fought my battle for the
Rog obscenity case alone for 8 years. Not one person from the industry came out in support. So now deal with the problems. It's too easy to join the crowd and hurl stones," she said.
She is currently producing Richa Chadha's
Cabaret. (Also Read:
Richa Chadha is the 'Hero' of Cabaret. Pooja Bhatt Explains)