Sillo Mahava is an actress who played the role of Mrs. Gomes in the Indian film, Black (2005), based on the life of Helen Keller, featuring Ayesha Kapoor, Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. (The movie was based on the Hollywood film, The Miracle Worker (1962) which shows the struggles faced by Anne Sullivan in teaching Keller.) Mrs. Gomes was the housekeeper and seemed to spoil Michelle McNelly, the protagonist played by Kapoor and Mukerji (Kapoor portrayed McNelly as the young, defiant girl; Mukerji when McNelly was older).