Radhika Apte

At 38 years old, Radhika Apte has this physical status:

Radhika Apte (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian theater and film actress.

Born in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, brought up in Pune, Apte began acting in theatre She made her feature film debut with a brief role in the Hindi fantasy Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005).

Apte has since worked in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English-language films. Apte's first starring role was in the 2009 Bengali social drama Antaheen.She gathered widespread praise for her supporting work in three of her 2015 Bollywood productions including the thriller Badlapur, the comedy Hunterrr, and the biographical film Manjhi - The Mountain Man.

Her leading roles in the 2016 independent films Phobia and Parched earned her further acclaim.

In 2018, Apte starred in three Netflix productions—the anthology film Lust Stories, the thriller series Sacred Games, and the horror miniseries Ghoul.

Radhika Apte has been nominated at the International Emmy Award for the Best Actress for her performance in Netflix's Lust Stories.In addition to her work in independent films, Apte has played (2014) the Tamil drama Kabali (2016), the Hindi biographical film Pad Man (2018), and the Hindi black comedy Andhadhun (2018), all of which were commercially successful.

She has been married to London-based musician Benedict Taylor since 2012.

Early life

Radhika Apte was born in a Marathi speaking family on 7 September 1985 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Her parents were studying and working as doctors at the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore when she was born. Her father Dr. Charudutt Apte subsequently became a neurosurgeon and chairman of Sahyadri Hospital, Pune. She is an Economics and Mathematics graduate from Fergusson College, Pune. In Pune, she initially studied in a regular school, and then was home schooled along with four friends by their parents living in the same building, who did not want their children to go through the regular schooling system. Apte found this experience liberating, as it boosted her self confidence. While growing up in Pune, Apte trained under Kathak exponent, Rohini Bhate, for eight years. It was during this time that Apte became involved in theater in Pune, and decided to go to Mumbai to join films. However, a few months later, Apte got discouraged by her experience in Mumbai and returned to her family in Pune. Apte recounted these times in an interview with Scoop Whoop in 2018, as a learning yet demoralizing experience, wherein she managed with a salary of ₹8,000 to ₹10,000 from theater roles and having to put up with odd house owners and roommates in Goregaon, where she lived as a paying guest. During this time, Apte acted in her first film, a Marathi film called "Gho mala asala hawa" (2009). This was followed by her first Hindi film, Shor in the city, after which she acted in Rakta Charitra, Rakta Charitra 2, and "I am".

On returning to Pune, Apte made an overnight decision of going to London for a year, where she studied contemporary dance at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for a year. Apte said her experience in London was life-changing, as she was exposed to a completely different and liberating way of working professionally. There she met her future husband Benedict, who subsequently moved to Pune with her, travelling regularly to Mumbai for his work while Apte still did not want to return to Mumbai because of her earlier experience. After a year, she finally agreed to move to Mumbai, and her second experience in Mumbai was far more positive, as she no longer felt alone.

Personal life

Apte met Benedict Taylor in 2011 in London during her year-long sabbatical when she had gone to learn contemporary dance. Director Sarang Sathaye, a friend of Radhika, in October 2012, said that the two had been living together since a long time and that a registered marriage took place a month before the official ceremony was said to be held in March 2013.

Apte has spoken out against sexual harassment in the Indian film industry. She supported the MeToo movement in India, stating that she was hopeful that it could bring about a change if enough major industry figures were to participate.

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Career

Apte appeared in the Hindi film Vain as a child.

Life Ho Toh Aisi!

In 2005, a student at the University of Oxford completed a project she did "just for fun" while still attending college. Rahul Bose, an actor who had seen Apte perform in Anahita Oberoi's play Bombay Black, suggested her name to director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, who starred her in his National award-winning Bengali film Antaheen with Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore, and Rahul Bose. In Antaheen, she played Brinda Roy Menon, a television journalist. Apte was a "revelation," Riddhima Seal, a writer for The Times of India, wrote a "long letter" about it. "With eyes that speak a thousand words, her love for work, and the loneliness of her heart as she waits to chat with the mysterious stranger who strikes the right chord every night."

Apte made her first Indian debut, KBC Productions' Gho Mala Hava, in which she appeared as a village girl in 2009. Mor Dekhne Mein jungle Mein later collaborated with Bhave and Sukthankar on the Hindi docufiction Mor Dekhne Jungle Mein. It was in that year that she appeared on "A bunch of youngsters working in a BPO" and Amol Palekar's Indian film Samaantar. In 2010, she appeared in Maneej Premnath's thriller The Waiting Room, and later in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakta Charitra and its sequel. Apte's return from London was given a role in a big blockbuster Hindi film, but she was (in her words) turned down because she was too fat to be in it.

Apte appeared in the anthology film I Am and in Shor in the city under Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Motion Pictures. Anna Hazare's film on Ha Bharat Majha (2012), was shot in 14 days and screened at various film festivals for the third time by the Bhave-Sukthankar pair. Tukaram's first Tamil film in 2012, as well as her second Tamil film Marathi and Dhoni. She was nominated for the Best Actress in a Support Role by the SIIMA Award for her role in the latter.

In 2013, she was seen in the Bengali film Rupkatha Noy. "I play Sananda, an IT engineer who is a single mother of a three-year-old child," the actress said of her character. Sananda's horrific history is haunting her. The first four 2014 releases of Apte, Pendulum, Legend, and Vetri Selvan were all available in three languages – Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil — followed by another film of hers, Lai Bhaari. Pendulum, which was described by Apte as a "story on magic realism that takes you through multiple levels of parallel reality or apparent truth," had her playing a working woman in partnership with a younger man, while in Vetri Selvan, she had played a lawyer. Legend and Lai Bhaari were commercial successes, with the former breaking the first weekend box office record and becoming the highest grossing Marathi film of all time.

Apte's name was gaining more attention in five feature films that were released in the first eight months in 2015. She appeared in the year's first publication, Sriram Raghavan's Badlapur, only for a small supporting role, for which she shot for six days. Despite appearing in the second half of the film, she was widely acknowledged and lauded for her role, with several commentators noting that she stood out among the ensemble cast members. Raja Sen, a Rediff girl, wrote that she was "sensational" and appeared in "probably the film's best" moment. Following Malayalam's debut, Haram, her first in the language, and Lion, a Telugu movie, she had her next Hindi debut, Harshvardhan Kulkarni's sex comedy Hunterrr. Despite mixed feedback, Apte's role was lauded once more for her performance. "While Shubha Shetty-Saha from midday.com said she was "in an absolutely realistic role," Filmfare's Rachit Gupta wrote, "She really comes into her own, in a role full of surprises." With Badlapur and Hunterrr both winning Apte critical praise and breaking into mainstream Bollywood, she grew in fame, breaking into Bollywood's new "go-to-girl" and the "new regular in Indian cinema," according to the media. "Radhika Apte is on her way to fame, whether she likes it or not," Huffington India wrote. Apte is a woman from Manjhi, Ketan Mehta's critically acclaimed biogeographical film Manjhi, based on Dashrath Manjhi, and Kaun Kitne Paani Mein, a satire on water scarcity starring Apte as an agriculture student, were released a week apart. In which she was depicted as the wife of Rajinikanth, her next film was the Tamil gangster-drama Kabali. Following her launch, her performance received critical feedback, and the film proved to be a huge commercial success as well.

Apte co-starred with Akshay Kumar in R. Balki's comedy-drama Pad Man, based on a short story in Twinkle Khanna's book, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad. It is inspired by Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu woman who campaigned for menstrual hygiene in rural India. Apte's job was that of a shy homemaker whose husband (Kumar) invents low-cost sanitary napkins. "Radhika Apte is, as always, a scene-stealer," NDTV's Saibal Chatterjee wrote. She plays a large role in ensuring that the protagonist and his wife's conversations do not devolve into corniness."

The Field, Rohit Karn Batra's debut film in the United States, Leena Yadav's Parched, a US-Indian co-production, and Ula, an Indo-British film, are among Apte's forthcoming films.

Apte is actively involved in theatre and has appeared in several stage productions, mainly in Hindi. She plays in plays including Tu, Purnaviram, Matra Ratra, and Samuel Beckett's That Time With Rehan Engineer in Mohit Takalkar's theatre troupe Aasakta Kalamanch. Kanyadaan, a commercial Hindi play, as well as an English play called Bombay Black. She was a participant of Uney Purey Shahar Ek, an Indian play based on Girish Karnad's Benda Kaalu on Toast ("Baked Beans of Toast"). She has also stated that she wants to do an English play in London. Apte has stated that she likes to work in experimental theatre.

Radhika Apte has appeared in a number of short films, including Darmiyan, in which she appeared as a college girl and Vagratunda Swaha, which was shot by Ashish Avikunthak over a period of 12 years. She was one of the leading actresses of Anurag Kashyap's film, That Day After Everyday, which premiered on YouTube in 2012. In Sujoy Ghosh's 2015 Bengali short film Ahalya, she played the title role.

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