Basically, and item boy is the male equivalent to item girl dancing to a song with double-meanings in revealing clothes. As the 2000′s rolled along, the item boy made an appearance onto the big screen. The item numbers soon became highly used and producers started investing more money into these sequences. This song was an afterthought in the final edit, but this song is what shot Madhuri Dixit to the star and icon she is today. Possibly the best example of this is Ek Do Teen of Tezaab. Nearing the 80′s, the heroine dancing in the sexualized manner was normalized. She created a monopoly in this tiny sliver of Bollywood and overshadowed other struggling actors trying to make it big on the silver screen. These vary from Aa Jaane Ja to Piya Tu Ab Toh Aaja to Mehbooba Mehbooba to Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo. Later down the line, Helen came along and featured in a decade-worth of item numbers. She rose to prominence alongside many legends like Madhubala and Meena Kumari for her dancing abilities. Cuckoo was the first major dancing star of Bollywood and performed in many successful movies like Pardes (1950) and Awaara (1951).
In the early Bollywood days, the term item number didn’t really seem to exist, but the sexualized dance sequences did. The term ‘item number’ has unknown origins but after many speculations, there is consensus that the term originated by (surprise, surprise) men to objectify these women. To understand why item numbers are not ok, we need to understand how it started.
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