Item girl Silk Smitha is one actor who makes news even after she left us.Film-makers tried to her real life story into a reel life saga and it was left to Vidya Balan to play Silk Smitha in block-buster flick Dirty Picture.
Meanwhile an interesting news about Silk Smitha has been revealed by a poplar hero.Kannada actor and producer V Ravichandran fondly recalls Silk Smitha’s discipline on the sets .Appearing on a popular Kannada TV chat show recently with actor Ramesh Arvind, Ravichandran revealed that his only regret was that he missed Silk Smitha’s last call to him just before her death.
In an interview to a Kannada channel, the `Crazy Star’ said, “I was busy shooting that day (September 23, 1996) and was surprised to see Smitha trying frantically to reach me a few times.
I tried to speak to her, but the call never got through due to poor connectivity.I thought it was a routine call.
However the next day, to my horror, I realised that Smitha had killed herself.I shudder to think what could have been the reason for her call.This haunts even me now.”
Silk Smitha was found dead at her Chennai apartment on September 23, 1996.
