Vidya Balan seems to have wrapped herself thoroughly in Silk’s character. To those of you who are not aware, Silk has an Andhra connection. Born Vijayalakshmi in a poor family in Eluru, she ran off from a failed marriage to Chennai and was discovered by Vinu Chakravarthy who renamed her Smitha and cast her in odd roles. But her matinee moment came in the 1979 Tamil film Vaendi Chakkram, where she was cast as the character Silk. The name stuck as did the notorious image of a sex bomb. From then on Silk Smitha went on to star in 450 films in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada. But stability and love eluded her life and Silk Smitha committed suicide in 1996, at a relatively young age.
It is these complex shades that Vidya Balan is portraying and the actress admitted that Silk’s journey was an amazing one considering her background and time she lived in. The song Oh La La is already a chart buster and if sources close to the movie (Dirty Picture) are to be believed quite a few feathers in South will be ruffled once the movie hits the screens in December.