The dirty picture directed by Milind Luthria was released on 2nd december 2011 is a biographic drama film based on the life of Silk Smitha and few other southern actresses like Nylon Nalini and Disco Shanti. The film was released in Hindi, Tamil and Telgu worldwide. The Dirty picture proved to be both commercial and a critical success. The lead role is played by Vidya Balan who received a lot of praise for portraying the role of Silk Smitha. The film also got praised for portraying women as power with male in a male dominated society. Dirty picture did a business of Rs 1.4 billion against its production budget of Rs 190 million.
The cast of the film was interesting and unconventional as is in all the Balaji films, Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan …show more content…
In the movie Silk has a dance with Suryakanth (Nasseruddin Shah) her idol. She seduces him and gets into sexual relations with him. Suryakanth recommends her to all his producers thus getting a lot of work for Silk. Abraham once again approaches Silva Ganesh with a script to cast Suryakanth but Suryakanth suggestion of adding sex to make a commercially accepted film is not accepted by Abharam who leaves the film. in the mean while Silk becomes very popular and rich. Suryakanth’s brother Ramakanth (Tusshar Kapoor) tries to befriend Silk as he secretly love her. Silk is finally happy thinking that she has found someone who loves her as she is and not for who she is and she starts sending more and more time with him. A famous journalist Naila (Anju Mahendru) criticises Silk for two timing both the brothers. Suryakanth insults Silk at an award function and drops her from all his forthcoming films, Silk is now forced with small time producers on a shoe string payments. A much younger actress Shakeela becomes a threat for her so Silk intentionally trips Shakeela after a dance challenge which