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As a newcomer, Tanushree Dutta has been quite lucky. While most newbies get a small bite of the pie, she got to play sololead in films. So, how did the item girl tag get attached to her? “Don’t call me an item girl!” she exclaims. “The song in 36 China Town was a far cry from the jhatak matak item songs we see today. I’m doing a string of films with Subhash Ghai’s production house, so this was a way of showing them my gratitude. Others use item numbers as a stepping stone, but I did it with a motive to work with a certain director. But I do admit that hit numbers do get us plenty of scope to perform during shows abroad,” she says.

She also says, “Technically, item numbers just offer more entertainment value. Being mainstream actors, we take liberties to do different things on screen. The minute a certain tag is attached, it hangs onto us for really long. I do fear being stereotyped and labelled.”

So was it her ‘beauty queen’ tag that helped her bag roles from good banners unlike other newcomers, who sometimes have no choice but to do B-grade films? She quickly defends, “I would rather sit at home and sulk, than do B-grade films. All the films that I’m doing are top-of-the-league projects, I wouldn’t do a film because I want to look busy and be busy. Even if I do two films a year, I find myself running short of time to do other things. I wouldn’t say that its plain luck; it’s a matter of choice.”