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| Looking back at her career Shakeela is unapologetic. |
Staff correspondent, August 10, 2015, NewsCrunch
Shakeela, Malayalam's softcore superstar, may have fired the sexual imagination of a generation of Indians - but the lady herself went through a torrid time battling depression.
Speaking to Roshni Nair of DNA, Shakeela says she is not aware if she suffers from depression nor has she sought any help.
But she may have cut her hand a few times, she mentions casually.
Life has been a rough ride for the adult actress, who set the standard for female orgasm with her loud moans on the screen. Post-acting her attempt to rebuild her career as a director flopped. And Shakeela also lost her money after an elder sister swindled her.
There is support from a younger brother, an adopted daughter and a community of transgenders with whom who she works.
Looking back at her career Shakeela is unapologetic. She chooses the word glamour to describe the films, not the standard adjectives, porn or soft porn.
Shakeela allowed producers to use body doubles to simulate her upper nudity or even insert footage without her permission - after all it was her bread and butter and she had to survive, she mentions.
Th DNA article gives a human touch to Shakeela's screen time and answers a question that may have troubled many an Indian male. Given the amount of moaning she did on the screen, did she enjoy any of it.
The answer is no. Shakeela says she would prefer to finish her scenes in just one take. If not the man would be all over her body again, she says.