Ask any PI (Crime) at any police station in the Andheri East/West, Oshiwara, Seven Bungalows, Jogeshwari and Goregaon belt - of course you gotta

know him well for this - and he will tell you that an item girl in his jurisdiction means trouble. He will immediately name some of them in particular and

wish they had to shift their residence someplace else generously infusing his conversation with the choicest of gallis, not to forget expletives and

adjectives for the women concerned.

I emphasize on the word “someâ€' as I have mentioned earlier and continue to re-iterate that a majority of item girls are nice, decent, beautiful women

who after their work on stage is done, go home to loving families. But then there are the black sheep or the rotten apples and this book is dedicated

to them.

However, not all are so genteel and lady-like and some of them have at least one complaint registered against them in the local police station where

they reside.

A select few of them are professional con women. And if you ask me as to how do I know this, I would immediately say “by sheer experienceâ€'. Well, I

don’t want to narrate all my “experiences’ here, but you can definitely read them all in my soon-to-be-released book titled “The Double Offer – the

secret lives of item girlsâ€'.

However, I would like to share a few spicy details. Most item girls have a god-father. Barring some of them who have made it on their own steam by

sheer hard work or given the fact that they are exceptionally beautiful or talented or both and not to forget business savvy and up-to-date in the

industry, the others “needâ€' a god-father or a rich boyfriend to even make it.

While there is nothing wrong in having a rich boyfriend, the way some of these aspiring item girls go about trapping such “rich boyfriendsâ€' is really

criminal. Targets are identified after meticulous search and research and even “testedâ€' before an attack is made. Some of them share information

among themselves as members of a crime syndicate would share data on a potential target. Then there are the sleazy co-ordinators who are in the

words of another well-known item girl “nothing by glorified pimpsâ€'.

The co-ordinators will also help the “upcoming item girlâ€' identify such a rich bakra. It’s part of his brief and job. The modus operandi is to ‘trap’ an

unsuspecting victim like a spider trapping a fly, then invite him into her parlor (read bedroom) and then milk him dry monetarily before dumping a

sometimes dead, sometimes drained (mentally, financially and emotionally) and sometimes destroyed victim back on the streets.

More often than not, these bakras are middle-aged married men, who have families, wives and kids and are God-fearing (do pooja everyday and even

visit temples and other places of worship regularly with their wives and families). And after the “poor menâ€' have been duped and milked dry, they

think that they have been paid for their philandering ways and prefer not to complain for fear of embarrassment and a possible divorce, not to forget

loss of esteem and self-respect. Others may resort to violence and may “want to teach the woman a lessonâ€' and some brave souls may decide to take

the con woman head on.

I personally know of at least about 20 such gentlemen (actually most of them were not so gentle in the first place) who have fallen prey to the

pleasures of the flesh and have lost everything. Two of them have lost their wives and their children, another four lost their businesses – when their

partners found out where the money was going – and another two unfortunately unable to bear the pain and stigma committed suicide. In all the

above cases, the abettors or perpetrators viz. the item girls got away scot free. One of them is a well-known and sort of respected “actressâ€' today.

Another is married and settled in London and many others are yet doing what they specialize in – gyrating on stage and conning rich bakras on the

side.

Disclaimer:

The above is an excerpt of a yet to be released book ‘The Double Offer’. This work is part of extensive research and “sting operationsâ€' carried out by

the original author of this work – Flynn Remedios - over a period of two years. While the author has made every effort to verify the content, accuracy

and veracity of this work, errors and omissions do creep in and the author accepts all and any such omissions or errors. The author also asserts that

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