Synopsis: Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan star in this fictionalised biopic of 1980s Tamil film sex siren Vijayalaxmi, popularly known as Silk Smitha. Offered the chance to be an extra, make-up girl Silk Smitha (Balan) soon begins a meteoric rise in the Southern India film industry, quickly becoming a star of the sexploitation films of the 1980s. But success is a double-edged sword, and Silk soon finds that her fierce ambition is not matched by her attempts to find lasting love.