This ignites a debate and people come out on the streets, demanding a ban on her films. He tells his friends in the media to spread the word that it is Shakeela’s soft porn films which are responsible for the rising sex crimes in Kerala. A day comes when she becomes as popular as Salim. She climbs the ladder of success, without sleeping around with anyone. Shakeela gets the hint and refuses to go. He tells Shakeela that she’ll play the lead in his next film and that she should meet him at his farm house at night for a ‘narration’.

Salim has a roving eye and he gets attracted to her, despite having a family. She is a huge fan of superstar Salim (Pankaj Tripathi) and one day, she gets a chance to be the junior artist in his film. 9 years later, Shakeela (Richa Chadha) has grown up and has achieved popularity but is not yet a star. Soon, she starts getting a lot of film offers.

Shakeela has no choice but to go with the flow. Her mother, however, tells her to not back out as it would help their family have a decent standard of living. Shakeela, however, runs away from the first day of shoot and blasts her mother for making her act in such movies. She takes Shakeela to filmmaker Rajan Pillai (Vivek Madan) and asks her to cast Shakeela in one of his adult films. Soon, however, her mother has a change of plan. Her mother was a junior artist in the film industry at one point and she decided to try her luck in cinema again. Her mother takes Shakeela and her siblings to the city of Cochin. The same day, however, her father passes away. She even wins a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. Shakeela is always interested in acting and when she gets a chance to play Draupaudi in the school play, she readily accepts it. She belongs to a poor family and his mother is constantly upset over their condition. Shakeela (Kajol Chugh) is a young school girl living in the small town of Vallamkulam, Kerala with her parents and a couple of siblings. SHAKEELA is the biopic of the adult star Shakeela. So does SHAKEELA manage to give an entertaining and thought-provoking time to the audiences? Or does it fail to impress? Let’s analyse.

9 years later, now Richa Chadha takes up the part of another popular Southern heroine, Shakeela, in the film, titled SHAKEELA. Audiences loved the depiction of the Southern industry of the 80s and the hypocrisy of society which was exposed in the Milan Luthria-directorial. Vidya Balan’s much loved 2011 film THE DIRTY PICTURE told the story of a Southern siren Silk Smitha.

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