"Main iss shehar ki sabse badi randi ban-na chahti hoon (I NEED to the largest whore in town)...I f**k folks that f**k with me." These don't seem to be lines from a blue film, but Bengali sizzler Paoli Dam's dialogues in Vivek Agnihotri's 'uncensored trailer' of Hate Story that is currently gone viral at the internet.
There also are repeated sequences of Paoli going nude and a slightly unsettling shot of actor(Joy Sengupta) grabbing her upper torso.
And when you think that is only for the internet, then wait. Vivek Agnihotri, actress Pallavi Joshi's husband, who has earlier made the thriller Chocolate and the football film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, won't let the censor board chop off any of the nudity or profanity within the trailer, not to mention the film.
Says Agnihotri, "My film isn't a kind of Bollywood erotic thrillers where we see a glimpse of a bra strap or a silhouette of a woman's underwear, or tantalizing peek on the cleavage or the thigh. My actress is nude on camera. We've gone all of the way way to my lead pair Paoli Dam and Gulshan Devaiya who didn't hesitate in getting naked for the camera. Paoli is a profound actress without a inhibitions about her body. A UNPRECEDENTED combination. Our profound actresses are all middle-aged. The last one was Kajol."
If the content and the actors are so unabashed within the celebration of sexuality, the director sees no explanation for the censor to get coy. "ALLOW THEM TO decide. My film is as bold because the German erotic thrillers. There is not any coyness concerning the sex act. If my heroine aspires to be a randi she says so...and why should she not? It is the characters that's stripping and saying all those things. I'M unwilling to dilute the content. If the censor board asks for the trailer to be toned down I'll withdraw the trailer."
So far love-making scenes in Hindi films have always been kept under covers. We hear the guideline has changed, and the way! The recent and uninhibited Bengali actress Paoli Dam already known for her no-holds-barred nudity in Bengali cinema, has apparently gone all of the way along with her co-star Gulshan Devaiya (of Shaitan fame) in Hate Story.
Apparently, the affection scenes were refrained from a smudge of fudging. Says Agnihotri, "I had explained to Paoli that I DID NOT wish to sham the nudity or the love-making. She understood what her character was alleged to do. I expected my leading man to be shy. Usually in our films it is the male who has more inhibitions about stripping, kissing and love-making. There's an excessive amount of performance anxiety within the male. Gulshan was each piece as unabashed as Paoli. What we've captured within the film is the type of explicit love-making never seen in Hindi films."
Agnihotri hopes the censor board would display as much maturity in evaluating the high erotic-content of his film because it deserves. "IT IS A film about sex and sexuality. The actors don't fake the nudity and the love-making. In the event that they are acknowledging their authentic intentions why should the censor board negate them?" reasons Agnihotri.
