Silk Smitha Profile, Biography and Filmography
Updated information about Actress Silk Smitha profile, Biography and Filmography is given here. Silk Smitha an India Actress became much popular with her glamorous roles in Indian Movies. In 1996 she was found dead in an apartment in Chennai.
Silk Smitha is a much popular South Indian actress who had acted in more than 200 movies which include Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi Movies. The original name of Smitha was Vijayalakshmi. Born on 2nd December 1960 in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh Smitha had tough time during her school days. She left the school at the age of 8 due to the financial constraints of the family.
Her film career began accidently while she settled at the house of her aunt who lived in Madras(Chennai). Popular director Vinu Chakravarthi discovered her talent and renamed her as Smitha. She got the first break in the Tamil Movie Vandi Chakram in 1979. The character played by her in the movie was named as 'Silk' which was further carried as her official name.
Smitha entered the Malayalam movie Industry with the movie Inaya Thedi in 1979. Smitha became the hot talk as many movies were produced only to keep the presence of her. She went on to act in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and a few Hindi films. Layanam one of her Malayalam movie was remade into Hindi titled as Reshma Ka Jawani.
Smitha was found dead on 23rd September 1996 in her apartment in Chennai. It is said that smitha commited suicide because of financial problem, broken love affair and high dependency on alcohol which had led to depression.
Here is the list of movies of Silk Smitha.
• Yamakinkarudu (1982)
• Moondram Pirai (1982)
• Moondru Mugam (1983)
• Paayum Puli (1983)
• Khaidi (1983)
• Challenge (1984)
• Layanam (1989)
• Adharvam (1989)
• Aditya 369 (1991)
• Nadodi (1992)
• Sphadikam (1995)
• Aditya 369 (1991)
• Palnati Pourusham
• Seethakoka Chiluka
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