Kinnara Thumbikal aka Kinnarathumbikal is a 2000 Malayalam softcore

Softcore

Softcore pornography is a form of filmic or photographic pornography or erotica that is less sexually explicit than hardcore pornography. It is intended to tickle and arouse men and women. Softcore pornography depicts nude and semi-nude performers engaging in casual social nudity or non-graphic...

 film directed by R. J. Prasad featuring Shakeela

Shakeela

Shakeela , , , is a film actress from India who has appeared in Indian softcore pornographic movies. She mostly acted in film industries of Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, and Kannada languages. She started out as an actor in B-grade movies in the early 1990s.Later she moved to Chennai seeking...

 in the lead role. The film was a new revolution in Malayalam cinema as well as in South Indian Film industry. The film with a short string budget went on to become surprise blockbuster. The film on huge success in Malayalam was dubbed in more than six Indian Languages such as Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

, Telegu, Kannada

Kannada language

Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...

, Hindi

Hindi

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 and Oriya

Oriya language

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. It was one of the biggest hits in the South Indian soft-porn industry, which has earned a cult following.

Story

Sanju is a poor boy who lives with his aunty,Hema is the cousin of Sanju they fall in love and plans to marriage.Shakeela who lives nearby become fond of Sanju and seduces him.

Reception

The made with a shoe string budget of 12 lakhs became a box office blockbuster grossing around 4 crores. It was dubbed in Hindi and other Indian languages and became successful. The film has earned a dedicated cult following, mainly in South Indian states. On the success many South Indian B movie

B movie

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's got dubbed in Hindi such as Layanam

Layanam

Layanam is a Malayalam soft porn film made in India in 1989. Produced and directed by Thulasidas, the movie was later dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi. It was one of the biggest hits in the South Indian soft-porn industry, which has earned a cult status. The film stars Silk Smitha,...

starring Silk Smitha

Silk Smitha

Silk Smitha was an Indian film actress. She became a movie extra and subsequently the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. The sobriquet "Silk" came in 1979, with her first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, in which she played a bar girl named Silk...

got dubbed as Reshma Ki Jawani and found success in Bollywood.