Radhika Apte (born 7 September 1985) is an Indian film and stage actress. Radhika has acted in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Teluguand Tamil films. She has also acted for Mohit Takalkar’s theatre troupe Aasakta.
She was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her Tamil film Dhoni. She married musician Benedict Taylor in 2012. 14 of her films are scheduled to release in 2014.
Actor Rahul Bose, who had seen her perform in Anahita Oberoi’s play Bombay Black, suggested her name to director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury who cast her in Antaheen along with Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore and Rahul Bose. She played the role of Brinda Roy Menon, a TV journalist, in Antaheen.
She has also done Marathi plays like Tu, Purnaviram, Matra Ratra, Kanyadaan and Samuel Beckett’s That Time with Rehan Engineer.
In Darmiyan, a short film, she played a college girl Ekta. Apte appeared as Savitri, a village girl in KBC productions Marathi film Gho Mala Asla Hava. She then starred in Akash Khurana’s Life on Life, about a bunch of youngsters working in a BPO and Amol Palekar’s Marathi film, Samaantar. In 2010, she was seen in Maneej Premnath’s thriller The Waiting Room and later appeared in a significant role in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakta Charitra and its sequel. She also appeared in Shor in the City under Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Films banner.
In 2013, she was seen in the Bengali film Rupkatha Noy. About her character she said, "I play Sananda, an IT engineer, who is a single mother of a three-year-old child. Sananda had a dreadful past, which keeps haunting her". She starred in Anurag Kashyap's short film on eve teasing, That Day After Everyday which was released inYouTube.
She has over a dozen upcoming films in various languages. She has finished shooting for a Tamil film, Vetri Selvan, two Hindi films — Mountain Man directed by Ketan Mehta and Hunter directed by Harshvardhan Kulkarni, which both she has described as "typical masala films" and the Marathi film Lai Bhari. Mountain Man is based on Dashrath Manjhi and Radhika plays Manjhi’s wife Falguni Devi in the film. She has also shot for one Bengali film Pendulum, which, according to her "is a story on magic realism which takes you through multiple layers of parallel realities, or apparent realities". In the South, she is working on the Telugu film Legend and the two Tamil films, Kolai Nokku Paarvai and Ula. She has further more signed up for The Field, the feature debut of Rohit Karn Batra, and Leena Yadav's Parched, a U.S.-Indian co-production
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