Vidya Balan has admitted that playing Silk Smitha on screen has been her toughest role yet. Balan appears as the South Indian actress in the loose biopic The Dirty Picture. She told Hindustan Times: ...

Vidya Balan has revealed that she found playing Silk Smitha "exhilarating". The actress took on the role of the late South Indian star Silk Smitha in her latest release Dirty Picture. She told DNA ...

Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, known popularly as Silk Smitha, was an Indian film artiste who worked predominantly in the South Indian languages. She entered the industry as an extra actress and first got ...

As The Dirty Picture turns 14, we bring you 5 reason why the film became the turning point for Vidya Balan and women-driven cinemas. Read on. Fourteen years ago, on December 2, 2011, The Dirty Picture ...