Happy Birthday Silk SmithaSilk Smitha was the ultimate sex siren of South Indian cinema in the 1980s. The Dirty Picture, one of this year’s most-talked-about Bollywood films and based on her life.

In her debut Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, she played a bar girl named Silk. After the film became a hit, she dropped her real name Vijayalakshmi and assumed the name Silk Smitha.

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She got her name 'Smitha' from a sponsor from Chennai. The city, at the time, was the central hub of the south Indian film industry.