Silk Smitha was a name that created waves down the south much before item girls crawled into B-Town.  Starting her career as a touch up person to a B grade artiste, Smitha grabbed everyone's attention as an item girl. She was found dead under mysterious circumstances. Smitha assumed the name Silk Smitha after the name of a character Silk in her first Tamil movie. Silk Smitha apparently committed suicide in late 90s.

A story on Silk Smitha named The Dirty Picture was released on birth anniversary of Silk Smitha last year. This movie was produced by Ekta Kapoor and the movie eventually became a big hit that even won a national award for Vidya Balan.  But Malayalam film industry, which knows the life of Silk Smitha better, says Dirty Picture couldn't portray the real  picture of her life. And now the industry is geared up to throw the light on the real life of Smitha.

Given that maximum scope will be there for exposing, the first question that would be asked is 'who would play Vidya Balan's role?' Bollywood's super hot Sana Khan is going to play Silk Smitha in the movie.

Malayalam directors K Madhum, Thampi Kannanthanam and  Viji Thampi would play real life roles in the movie. The best part of the picture is that the one who introduced Silk Smitha to Malayalam film industry, Antony Eastman is the script writer.

If this is again dubbed to Hindi, people wouldn't mind to watch second Dirty Picture with Sana Khan in the lead.

(AW Phani)