Alright Bollywood is now on a overdose of the item numbers. And for the un-initiated the pure definition in wiki's standards is- "
An item number or an item song, in Indian cinema, is a musical performance that has little to do with the film in which it appears, but is presented to showcase beautiful dancing women in very revealing clothes, to lend support to the marketability of the film. The term is commonly used in Bollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood, to describe a catchy, upbeat, often sexually provocative dance sequence for a song in a movie."It all started with Malaika Arora Khan turning the heat in the hit film Dabbang with her dancing to the tunes of the catch and peppy Munni Badnaam Hui, which really catched the fascination of the nation with Munni featuring everywhere from Chat sessions, Jokes to SMS's. In short the song means Munni
(pleasure girl) becomes disgraced, for u o darling, And believe it or not the song has also now entered into the Guiness Book of World Records with over 1200 people dancing for three minutes on the song, led by Malaika in none other than Australia. Now that's quite a feat. Munni is now globing global with her gyrating hips.
And if Munni was not enough then came the Sheila in Katrina Kaif dancing all over to take the breath of the nation with her My Name is Sheila, Sheila ki Jawani (
the youthful lust of Sheila). Bollywood surely knows how it all works to make big moolahs and to give a bit of western touch it included some English lines too with all the hidden inner and double meanings. And the beauty of both these songs are you'll fall in love with them, the very first time you hear them. They are easy to remember, catchy and reverbartes in your mind again and again. The lyrics, the music along with the performance just hooks up in your mind.
And and, if that was not enough now why Mallika Sherawat would leave behind. After all she was one of those to bring the
'hot' back to Bollywood. And to turn it one she will be in the form of Jalebi Bai,(
well again Jalebi for the un-itiated is an Indian sweet dish with a unique rolled up appearance like a maze). So another juicy performance wait with only the Indian public to decide its fate in the yet to be released film movie Double Dhamal by Indra Kumar.
And to have a taste of these songs here are the videos:
Footnote: Not every Munni, Sheila or Jalebi can catch the imagination of the masses how revealing they may be. Ultimate its to the wording, music and then the performance which makes it a complete hit package. Producers have often tried to repeat the tricks but more often than not it fail. And then there are the so called moral morals who try to claim their 10 seconds of publicity by doing as much they can to actually promote it, which otherwise may not perhaps have even entered the drawing rooms.
