Shakeela Silk Smitha

Shakeela Khan the Indian film industry's uncrowned sex queen, in 2001 the unlikely seductress - by her own admission

1. fat, 
2. dark and 
3. buxom 

notched the maximum number of films, all soft porn and big grossers, in Malayalam cinema, figuring in 30 of the 97 films released.

At times, she has sold jewellery to support the family. Her first film, Playgirls, with then reigning siren Silk Smitha - who taught her to wear double-padded bras and tights for bathing scenes-fetched her Rs 20,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Smitha

The day she got her first pay, she couldn't sleep.

1. in Kerala, vendors peddle Shakeela ice creams. 
2. There are restaurants named after her in Bahrain and Dubai - proof of a huge overseas market for her films. 
3. Her films are being dubbed in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi and "going to suburbs in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh", according to director Priyadarshan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakeela

Budget

Films like Mami she did last year were box-office shortcuts made by crafty producers on shoestring budgets of Rs 12-20 lakh - the cost of making a single set in a Bollywood film - but collecting three times the amount.

Family

The "doting" daughter, sister and aunt - she admits to

1. reading the Bible before bed every night and 
2. visiting the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry on weekends 
3. She's dating a police officer's son.