When Bollywood handled 'sex' smartly

The trailer of Sunny Leone's upcoming movie, ‘Mastizaade’ is everything you can imagine and more. While the men are left ogling at Sunny's sexy double avatars in the film, the women too now have something that they can ogle at, or maybe not. The recently released trailer has Vir Das making out with a foreign girl who realises that her husband is home. Vir Das' character then jumps out of the window and begins running, stark naked. Thankfully, the unmentionable parts are blurred and pixelated. Not only is Das completely nude, the actor also has his condom on (err..okay). When fellow joggers ask why he is running naked with his condom on, Vir replies by saying that he loves to run free and that his condom acts as a raincoat, just in case it rains. Well, at least, the actor is promoting safe sex. Click here to watch the video.

While Vir Das is successfully promoting safe sex, click on the next slide to check out other instances when Bollywood handled sex smartly...

Producer Ekta Kapoor objectifies 'men' in her next porn com. Ekta apparently made one small but significant change in the lyrics of a naughty track 'Oh Boy' from her upcoming film Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3. Initially, ace music composers Sajid - Wajid had recorded the song with the girl singing 'Oh boy, I am your soft toy'. Ekta, on hearing this, insisted the song be re-recorded for the bombshell Mandana to address the boys, Tusshar and Aftab, as 'her' soft toys instead. Eventually, the song was re-recorded with 'Oh boy, you are my soft toy'. Talk about women power!

Check out Mandana's sexy photoshoot for Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3...

The makers of the adult comedy, Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3, have released a behind-the-scene video of a hot photoshoot of reality TV sensation, Mandana Karimi. Mandana will be seen playing the female lead in the upcoming porn-com along with Tusshar Kapoor and Aftab Shivdasani. The Iranian model sizzles in a bikini for the photo shoot. Looking confident and comfortable in her skin, Mandana seems to be having a great time flaunting her hot body. Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 is scheduled to release on January 22, 2016. Click here to watch the video.

Find out what Sunny Leone has to say about 2016 being the year of adult comedies...

Former adult star, Sunny Leone, at a recent press conference, said that 2016 will be a year of adult comedies in Bollywood, with films like Kya Kool Hain Hum 3, Mastizaade and Great Grand Masti, lined up for release. When asked about how Mastizaade is different from the other films of the same genre, that are also lined up for release, Sunny said, “I think that 2016 is going to be the year of adult comedies. We have three films coming back-to-back and I think these movies are going to set a standard of comedy.” The film also stars Vir Das and Tusshar Kapoor and is set to hit theatres on January 29, 2016.

Find out what Radhika Apte had to say regarding the changing perception of women...

According to a report on Dnaindia.com, Radhika Apte, who is basking in the glory of Badlapur and Hunterrr, said that in today's times women are not expected to be sati savtiris. Talking about her character in Hunterrr, she said that she relates to her character in the film who had a relationship and an abortion. She doesn't know any friend of hers who hasn't had sex before marriage, the report quoted the actress.

Read further to know how sex is portrayed in the film Hunterrr...

A far cry from the suave and refined tycoon, Christian Grey, Hunterrr's Mandar Ponkshe, played by Gulshan Devaiah, is a simple middle-class man with a voracious sexual appetite, who has his own colourful and unique style of charming and seducing women. While Fifty Shades of Grey might have been deemed too 'sexy' for Indian tastes, it is a surprise that Hunterrr was passed by the Censor Board without any cuts. Perhaps it was because the film's director has claimed that he was the film's Censor board. Talking about the same, Gulshan was quoted in a Hindustan Times report as saying that they didn't have any problem with the Censor Board as they were always going for the A certificate. It made perfect sense to them to do so because of the theme of the film which is about Mandar Ponkshe’s sexual journey. He further added that the film's director, Harshwardhan Kulkarni was very practical about his approach and was his own censor.

However, Hunterrr is not the only erotica that is being dished up in recent times. A slew of other films are lined up for release and have perhaps sought inspiration from the films that have successfully used 'sex' to their benefit. Let's take a look at some of them...

Ek Paheli...Leela: According to a report in The Indian Express, debutant director, Bobby Khan is quoted as saying that Sunny Leone will be seen in different avatars in the film. Her character in the present era will see her playing a London-based supermodel with an Indian lineage and will be seen in a very glamorous avatar. Apparently, the model comes to India for a photoshoot and meets a prince whom she marries. Sunny, as a princess will wear kurtas, ghagras, chaniya cholis and gajras. Interestingly, the film is a reincarnation story going back 300 years when Leone will be shown as a dusky looking village girl called Leela. For this sequence, Sunny will be shown wearing small cholis and skirts wrapped around her as girls wore un-stitched clothes in that era. The film will cash in on the erotic element and if the stills of the film are any indication, it will all be done in an aesthetic manner.

Love, Sex Aur Dhokha: Shot entirely on a DigiCam, the film is a satire on the way television news media has been turning into cheap entertainment, feeding social voyeurism without taking any significant moral or ideological stance. The movie has three sub-plots involving honour killings, MMS scandals, and sting operations, which have become recurring phenomenon of TV news in India, reported on in a lurid language, accompanied by flashing headlines, and dramatic music which simultaneously sensationalises and trivialises the very serious issues involved: caste-ism in nouveau riche India, sexual privacy and blackmail by media. The anthology film directed by Dibakar Banerjee was released with a U/UA certificate but managed to pull in the crowds by strategically placing the word 'sex' in the title of the film. Interesting posters and the intriguing found-footage style shooting ensured that the film was different in all the right ways. The lovemaking scenes were not too graphic yet kept the erotic element alive.

Mastram: Inspired by real life porn writer, the fictional biography of the well-known Hindi erotica writer, Mastram, took the viewers on journey with Rajaram (Rahul Bagga), a small town bank clerk who dreams of travelling to Delhi and becoming a reputed writer. No one takes his litterateur aspirations seriously, least of all his uncle, who marries him off to Renu (Tasha Berry).The film is an account of how Rajaram adopts the pseudonym of 'Mastram' and thus becomes the first author of the first pornographic novel series in the Hindi language. Though the basic premise of the film is erotice, the makers of the film ensured that the content isn't titillating. The film managed to elicit curiosity without making the audience squirm. While the film's posters were rather raunchy, the film itself was a decent account of the writer's journey.

B.A. Pass: Feeling cheated by his parent’s sudden demise, Mukesh (Shadab Kamal) begrudgingly moves to his buaji’s house in Delhi to fetch a Bachelor’s degree which he hopes will help him score a job to support his two younger sisters. But all he is reduced to is fetching groceries and being a house help till he is invited over to buaji’s friend Sarika aunty’s (Shilpa Shukla) house. Shadab Kamal’s transformation from a wide-eyed, innocent teenager to a broodingly intense man trying to rescue his sisters from a life of prostitution in a ‘home’ by being a prostitute himself is applause-worthy. Shilpa Shukla’s nonchalance as she humps a man half her age with the camera skirting too close for comfort is a refreshing change from those bikini-sporting actresses who claim they can dare to bare. Never before has the distinction between the lives of the user and the used been as unashamedly documented. While the film featured explicit sex scenes, it was just an aspect of this noir that makes you wish such riveting stories were a part of the Bollywood repertoire.

The Dirty Picture: The Dirty Picture was touted as the steamy story of an '80s film star and managed to catch everyone's fancy. However, the film's director, Milan Luthria confessed that it was more than erotica which helped sell the film. "Only erotica is not enough. Titillation cannot get a film's pitch this high. It is the depth of the story we are telling and the beauty of it that has worked. TDP works because of Vidya. Most people can't see beyond the obvious, but honestly many things have worked in our favour. The music and the dialogue tell you that the movie is an entertainer. This, combined with the erotica, makes our film a complete package rather than just being uni-dimensional. From the time the first trailer played, I've been inundated with phone calls giving me positive feedback. Vidya has become a rage. From New York to Hyderabad, everyone wants a piece of her!" the director was quoted as saying in an interview with the Times Of India.