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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com

An interview of Bollywood film actress Lisa Ray I saw some time back that had me in splits! She was talking about having gone south to do film in Tollywood (that is the nick name for the Tamil film industry in South India).

She said that she expected being asked to wear falsies to enhance her ahem… ‘assets’ although she is fairly well endowed to begin with. After all, south Indian films have to have a lot of cleavage baring and bosom heaving to be acceptable to the public.

What she did not expect is being asked to wear falsies for her rear end as well! Apparently her nicely rounded bottom was not nicely rounded enough and that had to be padded as well!

They really like them plus sized down south it would appear and I have a new appreciation for that fact ever since I shifted to Bangalore. I recall Silk Smitha during my growing up years (yes that that was her actual screen name, heaven knows what it was actually), she was considered the Sex Symbol from the south.

In fact she was commonly known as Sexy Silk Smitha. I personally used to think all her lip licking and smouldering into the camera rather comical but hundreds of thousands of south Indian men did not think so, because she was hugely popular.

Poor Silk used to inexplicably and invariably end up either in a shower or a rain storm thereby drenching her and causing her to reveal her very substantial assets either thru gratuitous undressing or by the clinging wet garments leaving nothing to the imagination!

The point I am making here is, ladies and gents I present to you Silk Smitha, the ideal of the south Indian woman.

This ideal surely harks back to the days of yore when you were only beautiful when you were very, very curvy!

This is true even today.

What do you think?