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The Poetry of Hands
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Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’
Film/TV, Music The Chakkar 28/06/20 Film/TV, Music The Chakkar 28/06/20

Lyrical Cacophony: Sexuality and Objectification in Bollywood’s ‘Item Numbers’

While the discourse around the ‘item songs’ in Bollywood films usually revolves around the sexually explicit videos, Ankur Choudhary argues that the bigger issue to be tackled is the lyrical content that leans towards the objectification of women.

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