Vidya Balan’s ‘Dirty Picture’ is in Trouble

Milan Luthria’s much awaited directorial venture ‘The Dirty Picture’ is in trouble again. First it was in wrong news due to censor board certificate, and this time it seems that ‘The Dirty Picture’ is facing much bigger problem. Actress Vidya Balan is playing the character of Silk Smitha in this movie.

‘The dirty Picture’ is based on the life of controversial actress Silk Smitha and we come to know that the producer Ekta Kapoor and Director Milan Luthria did not take permission from her family before filming it.

Silk Smitha’s brother V Naga Vara Prasad has sent a legal notice to director and producer and he clarified to media by saying, "We came to know through TV channels and newspaper reports that The Dirty Picture portrays my sister in a rather obscene way. Neither the producer nor the director contacted us (the family). What right do the producer and the director have to make this film, without the family’s consent".

Vara Prasad said that he did not receive any response from them yet. "There still has been no response from their side. We are now going to send a second notice in a couple of days through a High Court lawyer in Hyderabad. If they go ahead with the release, we will be compelled to initiate proceedings,” said Prasad.

"We learned that they made the film based on inputs given by an alleged boyfriend of Smitha in Chennai. If they wanted to make a perfect film with facts in place, they should have contacted us to know about her childhood at least. We have to see the content of the film. Whatever is objectionable has to be deleted. Those days, the media was limited hence we could not get the actual truth behind her death. Many believe that she ended her life because of financial problems. It may not be the truth,” adds angry Prasad.

Prasad also made it clear that the family was not looking for any monetary gain.

"We don`t need anything from them. We just want them not to hurt us and our relatives," he adds.

About Silk Smitha:

Vijayalakshmi was born on 2nd December 1960 in a very poor family in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. She was married very early, however the marriage did not last long. She started her career as a make-up girl in 1970s and soon became a movie extra. By 1980s she became the most wanted heroine of the Southern movie industry.

The name "Silk" came in 1979 from her very first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, in which she portrayed a bar girl named Silk.

In a career spanning 17 years, Silk Smitha acted over 450 films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages.

She died on 23 September 1996.


Details of Movie 'The Dirty picture'

Director: Milan Luthria
Producer: Ekta Kapoor,Shobha Kapoor
Music: Vishal-Shekhar   
Cast: Vidya Balan,Naseeruddin Shah, Tusshar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi
Release Date: 2nd December