Richa Plays Adult Star Shakeela On Screen

Richa Chadha is all set to bring the story of Shakeela, one of the biggest adult stars to have emerged from the South and Silk Smitha’s successor of sorts, to the big screen.

Helmed by acclaimed filmmaker Indrajit Lankesh who had directed Deepika Padukone in her 2006 launch pad Aishwarya, the biopic will trace the journey of Shakeela, who rose to prominence in the ’90s at a time when the Silk Smitha fever was at its peak.

A self-confessed Smitha fan, she forayed into the industry when she was all of 16 and went on to act in several adult films across languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Such was her popularity that at one point, her films were said to rival the box-office collections of South superstars Mohanlal and Mammootty’s movies.