Helen | O Haseena Zulfonwaali | Teesri Manzil

“Every girl should flirt with the man who’s handling the camera and not with the hero…he’ll make her look gorgeous, giving her an edge over the leading lady” said Helen, the quintessential cabaret dancer of Indian cinema. Wearing a body-hugging cat suit wrapped in a diaphanous tulle skirt allowing her blonde hair and twinkling jewels to shine against the midnight black ensemble, actress and dancer Helen started as a cabaret dancer and metamorphosed into the ubiquitous Vamp prevalent in Indian films. This high-camp provocateur is truly the sizzling harbinger of Item Girls of Bollywood (a term that surfaced many years later).