I wrote a post on sensuous songs, songs that I thought were erotic without being raunchy or vulgar. This is its sister-post - songs of seduction. These are more explicit in their portrayal (within the parameters of Hindi films). Originally, when films did follow a decent script, we had directors who used songs to pull the narrative along. So, even while we had 'vamps' singing songs, it did have a concrete purpose in the larger scheme of things - for example, Jaata kahan hai diwaane in CID, or Tadbeer se bigdi hui in Baazi, or even Mud mud ke na dekh in Shree 420. Nightclub numbers accommodated a more 'westernised' tune into films. But as films became more and more 'masala', the songs of seduction became precursors to the 'item songs' of today.
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