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Article: Obituary: Silk Smitha
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 26, 1996
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Silk Smitha revolutionised southern India's prolific film
industry through her song-and-dance and cabaret numbers in some 300
films.
She performed these numbers so provocatively that leading Tamil,
Telegu and Malayalam distributors from the south would only accept
films which included her sultry and erotic cabarets, irrespective
of whether the story line warranted them or not. For her efforts
and her rather ample, though supple bulk she was christened
"Thundering Thighs".
Smitha initially played serious lead roles in several Telegu
films, but, over-partial to revealing, sequinned bodices and
low-slung, tight-fitting saris, she was eventually typecast as the
ultimate sex-siren, utterly ...