Rediff’s Sukanya was also impressed with the film, though the film did not paint a layered portrait of Silk. But Vidya lends her character so much transparency, aplomb and sauciness, the outcome is far more awe-inspiring than it deserves to be, the reviewer, who gave three out of five stars, says.
Times of India, which called the film ‘good’, praises director Milan Luthria for showing utmost sensitivity in not exploiting the premise in a way that the film turns vulgar in itself.
But for those of us Telugu cinema lovers, the film may not touch the emotional chord that you would expect from a biopic of a Telugu girl that Silk Smitha was. The Dirty Picture can be enjoyed as an interesting story in itself, but its biographical elements are too little and too negligible for us to look at it from our own Silk point of view.
