10 Years Of Dirty Picture; Vidya Balan Opens Up How Silk Changed Her Perspective – DEETS INSIDE
The Dirty Picture has left an indelible mark on people’s emotions in more than one way. While Vidya Balan’s incredible portrayal as Silk stunned audiences, there were countless other aspects of the film that blew them away
The Dirty Picture, starring Vidya Balan, has become a decade old today. On December 2nd, 2011, director Milan Luthria’s film was released. The film was a watershed point in Balan’s career, revealing a new side to her endearing ability. Aside from Vidya, the film also starred Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, and Tusshar Kapoor in key parts. The Dirty Picture is based on the life of Vijayalakshmi Vadlapatla, better known by her stage name Silk Smitha, who was a Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi cinema actress and dancer in the 1980s. Ekta Kapoor and Shobhaa Kapoor produced the film.
The Dirty Picture has made a lasting impression on people’s emotions in more ways than one. While Vidya Balan’s amazing performance as Silk wowed viewers, there are numerous other parts of the film that swept spectators away.
1. Her well-known Entertainment dialogue
Vidya Balan said that she is Entertainment in the movie where she played the character Silk. It’s been ten years, and this continues to be famous and well-liked, and it’ll go on for decades and more to come. Apart from that, the famous writer Rajat Aroraa gave many extra memorable terms which can be liberally peppered for the duration of the film.
2. Vidya Balan’s body transformation
As she was researching for this story on Instagram, she came across the remark. This film impacted the path of her life forever. She also appreciated her character Silk for teaching her how to embrace herself. Vidya Balan’s performance had a significant impact. It has been normal practice for performers to undergo significant bodily transformations to become the characters in their films. However, when The Dirty Picture was released in 2011, this was still unusual. In a perfect world, gaining weight would not be a problem, but in the reality, we live in, it is. Vidya Balan gained many kgs for her role, and she did it without hesitation. In a culture that is unhealthily obsessed with flat stomachs, here was a leading lady enjoying her curves on the big screen. It was unquestionably a pleasant and fresh change.
3. Male gaze, patriarchy, and sexism.
The Dirty Picture is ‘dirty’ only in the sense that it serves as a mirror to society and reflects the truth. If someone finds his stories nasty, then the society everyone lives in is dirty, Sadat Haasan Manto wrote. Milan Luthria’s film is more than simply a look at the masculine gaze and misogyny in both past and present culture. The fact that spectators go to cinemas to admire Silk’s cleavage, or that critics dismiss her while praising Suryakanth’s below-par performance, is proof of this.
4. A scathing critique of the entertainment industry
Films that depict the underbelly of the entertainment business should be considered a unique genre in their own right, since, well, who doesn’t enjoy them? The Dirty Picture is a twisted and smart indictment of the cinema business as well as the viewers. Consider the scene in which a youthful actress is seen portraying Suryakanth’s (Naseeruddin Shah) mother, while the latter, who is in his fifties, is shown playing a graduate.
5. The empowerment that comes from owning one’s sexuality
In terms of becoming a sex symbol,’ The Dirty Picture was one of the very first popular Hindi films to convincingly show sultriness without sacrificing dignity. In some ways, it’s a fitting memorial to Silk Smitha and the many other dance legends who bravely embraced their sexuality despite society’s rejection of them as deserving of respect. Silk, a role by Vidya Balan, teaches us that dignity is an inherent right, not something that must be earned. Reshma was sexualized several times throughout the film, but she handled it with unusual confidence each time.