Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
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 revealing clothes to lend support to the marketability of the film. The term is commonly used in connection with Hindi Kannada Tamil and Telugu cinema to describe a catchy upbeat often sexually provocative dance sequence for a song in a movie.
