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Chandrika to do biopic on Silk Smitha

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Chandrika Ravi (lefT to act as Silk Smitha in her next film.
Photo: Chandrika Ravi/Instagram

Indian-Australian actress Chandrika Ravi (left) took to Instagram on Dec 2 to announce she was doing a film on legendary “vamp” Silk Smitha (right), who died by suicide in 1996.

Titled Silk Smitha: The Untold Story, it will be directed by Jayaram Sankaran, who worked on the Tamil series Sweet Kaaram Coffee.

Smitha, whose real name was Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, skyrocketed to fame playing a dancer called Silk in the 1980 film Vandichakkaram.

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