Is the sleaze season over? Not quite, says the upfront and utterly frank Bipasha Basu. "Sex is definitely selling. And sexy films are doing well," she opines.
But the market seems to be groaning and moaning in pain rather than pleasure. Actresses who were "inspired" by the hot-and-sizzling success of Bipasha Basu in Jism, Mallika Sherawat in Murder and to a lesser extent Neha Dhupia in Julie are in for a disappointment.
Market statistics aren't too encouraging regarding the future of sexy films.
The maker of the 17-smooch film Khwahish has moved on. Govind Menon's new comedy featuring Mallika Sherawat is, according to the actress, her first vegetarian film.
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, which talks about cyber sex, had no takers even in the so-called sleazy centres, where students and single men are said to enjoy the cheesy experience.
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Directed by old Southern hand TLV Prasad, who did a string of C grade action films with Mithun Chakraborty in the 1990s, the strip-flick has been quick-sold in several sexually under-developed centres but is hardly going to create furore like some earlier strip-and-sell films.
Audiences seem to be quickly losing interest in these make-a-fast-buck peep shows. A couple more - Samit Baadkar's Jackpot with Hawas actress Meghna Naidu, and Manoj Bhatnagar's Chess with Mahima Chowdhary cast as the archetypal adultress stealing into the willing arms of stud Sonu Sood - are on the cards but the sex factory seems to be rapidly going out of business, what with mainstream heroines providing all the oomph that audiences need.