Today her name might be associated with tawdry dance numbers and sleazy scenes in tackily made cinema of the 1980’s, but once upon a time her name was enough to change fortunes. Welcome, to the legend of Silk Smitha.
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Found dead nearly a decade and a half ago Silk Smitha of the steamy dance numbers in ‘south Indian’ films started as a touch-up artist and went on to do wee bit character roles for a while in the late 1970’s. Discovered at a flourmill by a director who gave her the name Smitha, Silk got her legendary sobriquet after the bar dancer she portrayed in Vandi Chakkaram and things were never the same again. Her overtly inescapable sex appeal made it easy for Smitha to transform into Silk Smitha but she couldn’t be anything else after that.
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In a career spanning over 450 films Silk Smitha perhaps played the same role over and over again. She might not have been the darling of the critics, who often mistook her for a ‘soft porn’ artist, the public knew a different Silk and many of her films acquired a near cult status. She acted in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films and sometimes a dance number by her would change destinies. At the height of her career her item number was enough to revive films that lay in can for years; sold with the help of a Silk Smitha number, many films owe seeing the light of the day to her.
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It’s this myth, mystery and magic of Silk Smitha that Milan Luthria wants to capture in The Dirty Picture. Based on Silk’s life the film ironically features a respected and much revered National Award winning actor like Vidya Balan portraying the iconic Silk Smitha. Produced by Ekta Kapoor and penned by Rajat Aroraa, The Dirty Picture boasts of an impressive star cast with the likes of Naseeruddin Shah, Emran Hashmi and Tusshar Kapoor.
Vidya Balan in Silk Smitha
As much as about the people it’s based on, The Dirty Picture claims to be an ode to the era as well. Inspired by the look filmmakers of the period like, the film also takes a little motivation from Paul Thomas Anderson’s look at American porn industry of the 70’s in Boogie Nights. The promo of the film shows Vidya Balan in petticoats minus her signature sarees trying to induce the same nubile mannerisms that Silk Smitha was famous for and Naseeruddin Shah as a maturing actor who refuses to let reality bog him down. The promo is narrated by a character that is portrayed by Hashmi who is peeved enough with Silk to ruin her life.
The Dirty Picture Poster
From the look of it The Dirty Picture revisits the familiar Once Upon a Time in Mumbai terrain. While the latter was reality that couldn’t be tinkered around with beyond a point, this once the imagination can run truly amok. Like Ekta Kapoor commented mainstream press often sidestepped people like Silk Smitha so much of the life story was put together from anecdotes, met-at-a-party stories, quick tea-break chats, and fictionalized them. Besides the lady, who incarnated sex or sleaze depending on how you look at it, The Dirty Picture is also about the unfortunate few for whom the arc lights often led to tragic ends…another thing that Silk Smitha death epitomized.
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