Silk Smitha (December 2, 1960 – September 23, 1996) though Smitha in some character roles, became popular through her glamourous appearances in adult entertainment films.
She was born in a poor family in Eluru (Andhra Pradesh), originally named Vijayalakshmi. Determined to become a film star, she left school after the fourth standard. Moving in with her aunt in Madras (then the centre of the South Indian film industry). She started her career as a touch-up artist for a B-grade actor, Later she was discovered by Indian director Vinu Chakravarthy. He renamed her Smitha and his wife taught her English. Smitha made her debut in the Malayalam film Inaye Thedi in 1979. Smitha adopt the name SILK in 1979, after her first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, in which she played a bar girl named Silk. In a career spanning 17 years, she did over 450 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. Her most respected film is Moondram Pirai by Balu Mahendra, that later remade in Hindi as Sadma.
In Last few years of her life financial problems, disillusionment in love and an alcohol dependency apparently led to depression. In 1996, the uncrowned queen of glamour on the South Indian screen, Smitha was found dead in her Chennai apartment, suspected that she committed suicide.
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