Actress silk smitha biography tamil
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Silk Smitha Ferret, Death, Man, Husband, Biography
Film (Tamil): Vandichakkaram (1980) as 'Silk'
Film (Telugu): Gharana Gangulu (1981) in a small role
Film (Kannada): Gedda Maga (1983) in a small role
Film (Hindi): Paap Ko Jala Dunga (1982) as Asha
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Mother- Sarasam
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Silk Smitha
ACTOR
1960 - 1996
Silk Smitha
Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati (2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), better known by her stage name Silk Smitha, was an Indian actress and dancer who worked mainly in Tamil and Telugu cinema, in addition to some Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. She became one of India's most popular sex symbols of the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as one of the most sought-after erotic actresses in South Indian cinema in the 1980s. Smitha was a key figure in the Malayalam softcore film genre in the late 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Silk Smitha has received more than 6,692,804 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Silk Smitha is the 8,277th most popular actor (up from 8,872nd in 2019), the 944th most popular biography from India (down from 889th in 2019) and the 158th most popular Indian Actor.
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Among ACTORS
Among actors, Silk Smitha ranks 8,277 out of 13,578. Before her are Rosemarie DeWitt, Debby Ryan, Sonequa Martin-Gr
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Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, also known as Silk Smitha, is an Indian actress and dancer who worked in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films. Her first Tamil film was Vandichakkaram (1980), where she played the role of Silk, a bar girl. The film gained immense popularity, thus earning her the name Silk Smitha.
Smitha's bold performances and dance numbers made her a symbol of sensuality in the South Indian Film Industry. Smitha's dances gained so much popularity that they were used to boost the viewership of films that weren't performing as well. In some cases, distributors wanted her to appear in films to boost their performance.
Throughout her career, Smitha starred in over 500 films. She made the world record for appearing in the maximum number of films in a year in 1983, appeared in 44 films that year. However, when she entered the entertainment industry, she worked as an extra or domestic help for the main stars.
She began her career with the film Edutha Sabantham Mudipen (1979) and later starred in a series of Malayalam films, including Pushyaraagam (1979), Saraswathi Yaamam (1980), Ivar (1980), Karimpana (1980), and Angaadi (1980).
In 1981, she acted in numerous films, including Vayal (1981), Seethakoka Chilaka (1981), Inaye Thedi (1981), Poocha