Rating: ****
SMASHING is the first word I had on my lips upon seeing the first rushes of The Dirty Picture's promos with a delicious Vidya Balan... and yes, I am a girl talking about a girl here, but let me make a bet that the seductiveness this chick exudes in the film does somewhere fit with every guy's fantasy.
At the centre of The Dirty Picture's plot is Silk Smitha (played by Vidya Balan), an actress who was an ultimate sex symbol in 1980s south Indian cinema. The lascivious star was a sizzling element of more than 400 Malayalam and later Hindi Bollywood films, one of which was the famed Sadma, starring opposite Kamal Hassan and Sridevi. Smitha's success was short lived despite the wide array of films she left as her heritage, given that she passed away in 1996 at the young age of 35.
The Dirty Picture portrays her rise to fame and her subsequent fall. When innocent Reshma/Silk leaves Madras to become a star, her oozing sensuality gets her where she needs to be in films and sets the box office ablaze. From men who love her (Tusshar Kapoor as Ramakant), to those who lust after her (Naseeruddin Shah playing Ramakant's brother, Suryakant, the superstar), to those who despise what she represents (a cold but compassionate Abraham, played by Emraan Hashmi)... she leaves no man in the industry indifferent!
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