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From being part of a girlband Sanskara to VJ-ing, Indipopping, acting and now an item song — Sophie Choudhary has done it all. She's of course best remembered for her turn as the sexy siren in Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Sophie, who was in town ...

Veteran actor Dharmendra seems to be getting younger with age. The 77-year-old has done a Punjabi rap for the title track of his upcoming film "Yamla Pagla Deewana 2". He has also sported a rockstar-look for it. A glimpse of this song has already ...

Item songs are a necessary evil in Bollywood. Though criticised for objectifying women, even top filmmakers from Karan Johar to Dibakar Banerjee cannot resist adding a glitzy, glamorous item number in their movies to lure the masses.  Even the leading ladies seem to have no qualms about going all out with the amazingly toned bodies to ooze oomph in a showstopper song. They get tons of money and mileage out of it. Often the item girl is more talked about than the film's actual heroine.