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What an item!

Updated on: 14 December,2011 08:34 AM IST |
Mauli Singh |

As a part of our year-end polls, we asked a cross section of people to rate the 2011 item numbers that made them go tizzy with its oomph factor. Here are the poll results

What an item!

As a part of our year-end polls, we asked a cross section of people to rate the 2011 item numbers that made them go tizzy with its oomph factor. Here are the poll results

Just as a typical Bollywood movie seems incomplete without an item song, ending 2011 without a special piece on them would be just as abrupt.

Chammak challo

An item number along with its mandatory jhatkas and latkas, comes handy not only as a crowd pulling publicity gimmick before the release of the film, but also to up the hotness quotient of the film.

Tere pyaar ne kar diya deewana
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In some cases it is also said to have boosted box office openings and has also served as a saving grace for some bad movies.

Character dheela

And if women are ruling the roost with their oomph-appeal, can the men in the male-dominated industry be left behind?

Ooh la la

So if last year's item girls like Munni (Malaika Arora Khan) and Sheela (Katrina Kaif) are conspicuous by their absence in the list this year, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan more than make it up with their nominations.

The nominations for the most talked-about item songs in films released in 2011.
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Ooh la la, Ooh la la (The Dirty Picture) - Vidya Balan
Dum Maaro Dum (Dum Maaro Dum) - Deepika Padukone
Jalebi bai (Double Dhamaal) - Mallika Sherawat
Tere pyaar ne kar diya deewana (Delhi Belly) - Aamir Khan
Character Dheela (Ready) - Salman Khan/Zareen Khan
Zara Kareeb Se (Murder 2) - Yana Gupta