Vadlapati Vijayalakshmi, better known by her stage name Silk Smitha, was an Indian actress and dancer who worked mainly in Telugu and Tamil cinema, in addition to some Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films. She became one of India's most popular sex symbols of the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as one of the most sought-after erotic actresses in South Indian cinema in the 1980s. Smitha was a key figure in the Malayalam softcore film genre in the late 1980s.