Why Kareena Kapoor can never be an item number

This is not a comparison piece to Helen!

Though many will agree with me that she was the ultimate in item numbers.

Kareen Kapoor is a lovely woman, an many a time under the right director, she has shown herself to be a fine actress.

But, after watching her stellar performance in Don, I am afraid she can never qualify as an item number.

While it is not that she lacks either looks, dedication or talent, she does not have the fatal flaw of the tragic heroine, so necessary for the item number. That inherent becahri, who must shed clothes like a second skin to please the world of men, is not a mantle she can don with ease. And the pun is intended.

Simply, because she is a woman with too much power!

Kareena Kapoor is sexy! And she isn't ashamed about it. And that is the reason her sexuality can never become 'objectified'.

She can never be a lolling creation of tinsel, tits and ass.

Her mind and her smug security in herself; that assurance and self-confidence will never let her dwindle into a dancing doll.

So, while the other women wear their sexuality on their sleeve, Kareena exudes a sexual power that is at par with the man she dances around.

And that is why, while the Rakhi Sawants of the world continue to rule the item roosts, Kareena should stick to what she really does best of all- being Kareena Kapoor!