Radhika Apte was born on 7 September 1985 and is an Indian actress.
35 Facts About Radhika Apte
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Radhika Apte's leading roles in the 2016 independent films Phobia and Parched earned her acclaim.
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Radhika Apte was nominated for an International Emmy Award for her work in the first of these.
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Radhika Apte has since starred in the Netflix films Raat Akeli Hai and Monica, O My Darling, and portrayed Noor Inayat Khan in the American film A Call to Spy.
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Radhika Apte has been married to London-based musician, Benedict Taylor, since 2012.
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Radhika Apte born on 7 September 1985 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu into a Marathi family.
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Radhika Apte is an Economics and Mathematics graduate from Fergusson College, Pune.
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Radhika Apte found this experience liberating, as it boosted her self-confidence.
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However, a few months later, Radhika Apte got discouraged by her experience in Mumbai and returned to her family in Pune.
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Radhika 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.
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On returning to Pune, Radhika 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.
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Radhika Apte said her experience in London was life-changing, as she was exposed to a completely different and liberating way of working professionally.
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Actor Rahul Bose, who had seen Radhika Apte perform in Anahita Oberoi's play Bombay Black, suggested her name to director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury who cast her in his National award-winning Bengali film Antaheen along with Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore and Rahul Bose.
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Radhika Apte played the role of Brinda Roy Menon, a TV journalist, in Antaheen.
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In 2009, Radhika Apte had her first Indian release, KBC productions' Gho Mala Asla Hava by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar, in which she appeared as Savitri, a village girl.
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Radhika Apte later collaborated with Bhave and Sukthankar again on the Hindi docufiction Mor Dekhne Jungle Mein.
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On returning from London, Radhika Apte was offered a role in a large blockbuster production Hindi film, but was kicked out of it, because they felt she was too fat to be in that film.
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In 2011, Radhika Apte appeared in the anthology film I Am and in Shor in the City under Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Motion Pictures.
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Radhika Apte worked for the third time with the Bhave-Sukthankar duo on Ha Bharat Majha, a film inspired by Anna Hazare's movement that was shot in 14 days and screened at various film festivals.
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In 2015, Radhika Apte gained wider recognition for her roles in six feature films released in the first eight months.
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HuffPost India wrote, "Radhika Apte is on her way to stardom, whether she likes it or not".
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In 2018, 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.
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Radhika Apte's role was that of a shy homemaker whose husband invents low-cost sanitary napkins.
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Radhika Apte contributes majorly to ensuring that the exchanges between the protagonist and his wife do not veer into corniness.
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Radhika Apte made her directorial debut with The Sleepwalkers, starring Gulshan Devaiah and Shahana Goswami.
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Radhika Apte is actively involved with theatre and has been part of several stage plays, mostly in Hindi language.
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Radhika Apte is associated with Mohit Takalkar's theatre troupe Aasakta Kalamanch in her hometown and has acted in plays like Tu, Purnaviram, Matra Ratra and Samuel Beckett's That Time with Rehan Engineer.
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Radhika Apte performed a commercial Hindi play, Kanyadaan, and an English play named Bombay Black.
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Radhika Apte has stated that she plans to do an English play in London.
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Radhika Apte has said that she prefers to work in experimental theatre.
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Radhika Apte has acted in a number of short films, including Darmiyan, in which she played a college girl, Ekta, and Vakratunda Swaha, which was filmed by Ashish Avikunthak over a period of 12 years.
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Radhika Apte played one of the lead roles in Anurag Kashyap's film on eve teasing, That Day After Everyday, which released on YouTube in 2012.
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Radhika Apte has played the title role in Sujoy Ghosh's 2015 Bengali short film Ahalya.
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Radhika Apte met Benedict Taylor in 2011 in London during her year-long sabbatical when she had gone to learn contemporary dance.
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Radhika Apte 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.