We've had our share of bad girls. The Femme Fatale in Indian cinema is as old as betrayal itself, and our leading men have often been stabbed in the back by their women.
With Karzzzz coming up, here's a look at some memorable characters -- characters who lie, cheat and steal. And look good while doing it.
10. Urmila in Karzzzz
One of Hindi cinema's ultimate vamps, Kamini was a role made famous by Simi Garewal in Subhash Ghai's 1980 smash hit, Karz.
The Himesh Reshammiya version, all set to be unleashed upon us this Friday, features a few more Zs and an ounce or two more oomph with Urmila -- though can any woman really match up to the creepiness of Simi? We bet Urmi'll through in some hardcore shrieking, though.
9. Katrina/Bipasha in Race Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif play characters so wholly immoral in Abbas-Mastan's Race that it's hard to keep up with who is cheating with who as they each take turns to side with -- and betray -- the film's leading men, Akshaye Khanna and Saif Ali Khan.
Kaif does manage to make formalwear look pretty darned hot, though -- where would movies be without the sexy secretary?
8. Rani Mukerji in Kabhi Alvidaa Naa Kehnaa Clearly, the lady was a masochist.
There had to be some sort of bondage connection about falling in love with Shah Rukh Khan, cast against type as the most unlovable feller in the world, a surly grouch who routinely bawled out his young son for playing a violin.
Frustration was rife in the air, but somehow these two losers connected, figuring out where the party actually was, even as their spouses innocuously asked the same question.
7. Priyanka Chopra in Aitraaz Still considered one of her landmark roles, Ms Chopra bounced to prominence with her raunchy take on the Demi Moore character from Disclosure in yet another Abbas-Mastan film.
Priyanka threw herself into the role -- and onto co-star Akshay Kumar -- with such impassioned gusto that nobody who was watching really had much to complain about.
6. Kareena in Fida This Ken Ghosh film saw then-lovers Kareena and Shahid Kapoor cast as an on-screen pair, and with audiences naturally lulled into thinking all was hunky-dory, a shocker had to be sprung: Kareena made the Bollywoodesque decision that Khan trumps Kapoor, and decided to ditch Shahid for Fardeen.
5. Kajol in Gupt Rajiv Rai's blockbuster Gupt was a rarity in desi parts, a pretty authentic whodunnit.
Woven around a killer melodramatically offing people testifying against Bobby Deol, the man who all the circumstantial evidence was pointing towards, it's not all that hard to see the twist coming -- the killer is indeed the aforementioned actress, murdering because of a crush -- but Kajol's performance managed to elevate the film's climax and take it to a popcorn-friendly crescendo.
4. Rimii Sen in Johnny Gaddaar Marriage to the technicolor-shirt wearing Shardul (played by Zaakir Hussain) had to take its toll on a young jigsaw-puzzle lover, and so Sen hitched her wagon to the blue-eyed and fresh faced Neil Nitin Mukesh, playing one of Shardul's 'business associates.'
Not content with merely cheating on her uncouth hubby, Sen also incited young Neil to larceny. Nice.
3. Mallika Sherawat in Murder Really, this one we all know about.
In the film, Mallika is married to Ashmit Patel -- making infidelity quite the plausible option by default -- and in walks Emraan Hashmi, ensuring that Bollywood steaminess would never be about intertwined flowers and trains-through-tunnels anymore.
2. Rekha in Silsila This Yash Chopra classic saw Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha falling deeply in love, but soon ending up in different, utterly unwanted marriages.
When they run into each other again, the flames are well rekindled and much hotel-room action is had.
Their infidelity finds bhang-driven celebration in the iconic Rang Barse, a song where they unashamedly make a run for each other while spouses Jaya Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar look despairingly on.
1. Tabu in Maqbool One of the finest of our on-screen femme fatales, Tabu plays the Lady Macbeth routine with such delicious sensuality that it's hard not to be on her side.
Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool sees the ever-stunning actress seduce the morally ambiguous Irrfan Khan in the titular role even as she's wed to the Godfatheresque Pankaj Kapoor.
That line where she tells Khan about the various moles on her body still gives us, um, goose-pimples.
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