Rebellious and uninhabited Reshma lives an impoverished
lifestyle with her mother, Ratnamma, in 1980s South India. She is an
ardent fan of film actor, Suryakant, and her one ambition in life is to
meet and act with him. She runs away to Madras, and like, hundreds of
young women, lines up outside Jupiter Studios to try and get noticed.
With her plain, next-door-girl looks, she gets ignored but as fate could
have it she is given a chance to play a minor role after she manages to
sneak into the studios. The role exploits her as a sex symbol, driving
males to the cinema houses to absorb her movements and beauty. Virtually
overnight she, now renamed Silk, becomes a sensation, and together with
the aging superstar, Suryakant, the one she had always fantasized
about, she sizzles the silver screen with her sex appeal. Suryakant's
brother, Ramakant, an author, is smitten by her - so much so that he
would like her to opt out of movies altogether...
