Remembering the intriguing Silk Smitha
The Dirty Picture might have managed to stir up a storm with the audiences, but looks like now it is the turn of its filmmaker to be shocked.
Silk Smitha's brother V Naga Vara Prasad has accused Ekta Kapoor and Milan Luthria, the makers of The Dirty Picture, of making a film on his sibling's life without the family's consent. They have also called the film 'obscene' and have send a legal notice to the team.
Team Dirty Picture is yet to respond to the notice.
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Remembering the intriguing Silk SmithaThe Dirty Picture starring Vidya Balan, reportedly based on the life of the dancing sensation of the 80s Silk Smitha, opened to full houses all over the country today. This is great news for the film which is helmed by a woman producer and banks on the main female actor, with no big male star. The film, fittingly, has been released on December 2, which is Silk's birthday.
This image, a still from a Tamil film showing Silk Smitha with superstar Rajinikanth.
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Remembering the intriguing Silk SmithaShe moved in with her aunt in Madras (Chennai) (then the centre of South Indian film industry), and soon found a sponsor who renamed her Smitha. She got the name ‘Silk' based on her role in the movie Vandi Chakkaram (The Wheel), in 1979. -
Remembering the intriguing Silk SmithaMoondram Pirai, released in 1982, is perhaps Smitha's biggest movie. While Kamal Haasan and Sridevi were the leading stars, Smitha made her own mark as the headmaster's wife. The film was remade the following year as Sadma in Hindi which also starred Smitha as Soni. -
Remembering the intriguing Silk SmithaLayanam, released in 1989, was a soft-porn masala flick. The movie starred Silk Smitha, Abhilasha, Devishri and Nandu and was produced in Malayalam. It was the story of a young boy who gets intimately involved with three older women. The film gained more popularity later when two of its lead actors, Nandu and Silk, died under mysterious circumstances.
