Up to the 1970s, Bollywood often relied on a female "vamp" character – usually playing the role of a cabaret dancer, "tawaif"/prostitute/courtesan, or male gangster's moll – to provide musical entertainment deemed more risqué. While film heroines also sang and danced, it was the vamp who wore more revealing clothes, smoked, drank, and sang sexually suggestive lyrics. The vamp was portrayed as immodest rather than evil, and her dance performances were sexualized by male producers. The trend was started by Cuckoo in films like "Awaara" (1951), "Aan" (1952) and "Shabistan" (1951).