Bollywood’s hottest item girls - NOW and THEN - tribute including Sunny Leone and Alia Bhatt!

Bollywood’s hottest item girls - NOW and THEN - tribute including Sunny Leone and Alia Bhatt!

Box office fights can be brutal in Bollywood where every Rupee counts. And while producers and heroes fight for the top positions, women always had one trump card to play: The item song!

If there is one thing the Indian audience has always loved, it’s a hot item girl dancing to a catchy number. And let’s be honest, that’s often the only part that stays with us of many what-was-its-name movies! Bollywood’s biggest heroines who couldn’t be more different still have one thing in common: They know the value of a great item song! Including big shots like the obvious sex bomb Sunny Leone (Laila - Shootout At Wadala) and the always surprising talent house Alia Bhatt (Hook Up Song - Student Of The Year 2)!

Box office hit or flop, item songs have created their very own place in Bollywood fans’ hearts and so have the girls in the songs themselves. “Ek item song dalo!” is every producer's way to make their movie one to remember! And often it’s a remake of a popular original from a few decades ago like Dhak Dhak or Dilbar. Creating a brand new item song however is an art of itself and Bollywood musicians break their heads to crack that new Babydoll or Sunny Sunny song to stay in the audience’s ears and hearts for the next decades to come. And those are the songs we dance to on repeat at every Indian wedding around the world, whether it’s Asin’s Hookah Bar song from Khiladi 786 or Bruna Abdullah’s Subha Hone Na De from Desi Boyz, even if we never get to see those girls again.

The list goes on to our biggest international superstars like Priyanka Chopra Jones and Deepika Padukone, to other one hit wonders like Geeta Basra and Lisa Haydon, to the always coming back Bipasha Basu and Shilpa Shetty Kundra. And even though we barely remember the names of some of the movies the songs were supposed to crack the 100 crore mark for, we will forever remember the catchy beats and sexy sarees of the hot women in them!

So here is a little tribute to some of the hottest item girls NOW - and THEN!

Helen - Madhuri Dixit - Sridevi

Malaika Arora Khan - Munni Badnaam Hui in Dabangg

Kareena Kapoor - Fevicol Se in Dabangg 2

Katrina Kaif - Chickni Chameli in Agneepath

Evelyn Sharma - Babli in Kissebaaz

Norah Fatehi - Dilbar in Satyameva Jayate

Disha Patani - Slow Motion in Bharat