Can you think of a make-up girl who becomes an extra and then things take turn in her life and she becomes the most wanted heroines of the early eighties? Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of the former screen sensation - Silk Smitha, The Dirty Picture is placed next to the colourful and amusing background of the South Indian film industry of the eighties. The typical alarm bell, Silk, had been knowing her audiences, and it did not give the impression like anything could bring to an end the violently ambitious starlet, until it did, in the form of unanswered love. For every one in the world, Silk was the queen of sensuality. However at heart, Silk was now another lady longing for true love. Ultimately she gets into an unlucky stumble upon with treachery and unfaithfulness that led to terrible consequences!