The Dirty Picture, the upcoming Bollywood biopic on the life of the South Indian movie siren Silk Smitha, directed by Milan Luthria and produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor. The Dirty Picture movie will not focus on the sex and sleaze, but the tragedy behind the mask of the sex symbol who provided stimulation to thousands of viewers but died a lonely and tragic death.
Who was Silk Smitha:
Silk Smitha(2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), born as Vijayalakshmi was an Indian film actress. She became a movie extra and subsequently the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. The sobriquet "Silk" came in 1979, with her first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, in which she played a bar girl named Silk. In a career spanning 17 years, she did over 450 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages.
Who was Silk Smitha:
Silk Smitha(2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), born as Vijayalakshmi was an Indian film actress. She became a movie extra and subsequently the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. The sobriquet "Silk" came in 1979, with her first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, in which she played a bar girl named Silk. In a career spanning 17 years, she did over 450 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages.
