Shakeela (2020)
शकीला
Not a Porn Star
A biopic based on the life of adult movie star Shakeela, who ruled the South Indian film industry for over two decades and starred in many controversial and bold films.
- Date of release
- 2020-12-25
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 2h 6m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Indrajit Lankesh
Casting
- Richa Chadha — Shakeela
- Pankaj Tripathi — Salim
- Rajeev Ravindranathan
- Sheeva Rana — Silk Smitha
- Ester Noronha — Suhana
- Rajeev Pillai
- Kajol Chugh — Young Shakeela
- Vicky Kadian
- Saurabh Soni
Interesting facts
Shakeela is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language biographical film written and directed by Indrajit Lankesh. The film stars Richa Chadda as the eponymous adult star of 1990s who acted in adult films in several Indian languages, with Pankaj Tripathi and Rajeev Pillai in supporting roles. Shakeela was released on 25 December 2020.
Production
Lankesh started working on the film in 2019. Richa Chadda said in an interview that she came to know many lesser known facts about Shakeela like she hired a body double to do her scenes. Though the posters and few glimpses were out in 2018 and 2019 by Shakeela team.
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