Actor Richa Chadha will star in a biopic of Shakeela, who was, in the early nineties, one of the most popular adult film stars across south India.
"The film is the story of Shakeela, one of the most famous actors from Malayalam cinema from the 1990s who rose to a spectacular amount of fame. Her fans were spread across Asia and she earned fanfare as a woman which back then was unheard of," Richa's spokesperson said in a statement, reported IANS.
Play Girls was her maiden film, and her popularity reached its zenith with the Malayalam film Kinnarathumbikal, which became a cult classic.
The actor had relegated herself to the background for the past 10 years, but she is making a comeback with a Telugu film, her 250th, titled Seelavati What the ***k. The first-look poster of the film was released by Shakeela and the crew. The film is reportedly a psycho thriller directed by Sai Ram Desari, and is expected to be released by April.