Silk Smitha

Silk Smitha was an Indian film actress.Starting a make-up girl in 1970s she became an movie extra and subsequently the most wanted heroine of the early 80s.The sobriquet Silk came in 1979 with 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, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi languages.

Born Vijayalakshmi in poor family in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, Smitha left school after her fourth standard due to financial constraints.Due her good looks she was exploited by men thus her family married her off at a very young age.But when she started getting ill treated in her marriage, she ran away to Madras and started living with an aunt.She started her career as as a touch-up artiste for a B grade actor and soon got a break in small character roles.

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