Jaya Bhaduri in Shor:
She played a wild girl on the streets of Mumbai who lures men into dark corners and then threatens them with cops and jail accusing them of inappropriate conduct if they don’t part with their money.
Shabana-Neetu Singh in Parvarish:
The very artsy Shabana Azmi and the very filmi Neetu Singh played siblings who were pickpockets in this Manmohan Desai film. Desai even named the two characters ‘Shabbo’ and ‘Neetu’ after the actresses.
Zeenat Aman in Heera Panna:
Dev Anand, whose name is Heera in the film, thinks Zeenat wants him when she says she wants ‘heera’. But she only wants his diamonds.
Madhuri Dixit in Khel:
Madhuri out-smarted her male co stars Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher as the con-girl who believes in short-cuts to wealth.
Sridevi in Bhagwaan Dada:
This is a film best known for Hrithik Roshan’s screen debut as a child actor. Sridevi played Bijli, the prostitute who takes customers into hotel rooms, gets them drunk and flees with their money without giving them what they had paid her for.
Aishwarya Rai in Dhoom 2:
She played the sensuous Sunehri.She had only one ambition: To be the best con artiste in the world.Wonder what her mom fed her for breakfast.
Parineeti Chopra in Daawat-e-Ishq:
She sets up an elaborate con-plan to nab the unsuspecting Aditya Roy Kapur in a dowry trap.
Madhuri Dixit and Huma Qureshi in Dedh Ishqiya:
They fooled us with their adaas and nakhras made a maamu (fool) out of the uncle-nephew pair of Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi, before walking off into the sunset hand-in-hand.
Rani Mukhejee in Bunty Aur Babli:
Teaming up with her then-buddy Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee whipped up a fun saga, conning her way through escapades including one where she sold the Taj Mahal to foreigners.
Vyjanthimala in Sadhana:
Aeons ago the very versatile Vyjanthimala played a prostitute who poses as an upright professor’s wife to fulfil his dying mother’s wish. It was a distinctly grey character for a top-notch heroine.
