Actor Radhika Apte reveals she started getting offers of sex comedies after she starred in Sriram Raghavan’s Badlapur, where her character stripped to save her husband from being killed.
At We The Women event, the actor opened up about the problematic mindset of many in the industry, who slotted her as a “seductress” after a particular scene in Badlapur.
Radhika Apte made the revelation when Barkha Dutt asked her the kind of films she turns down. “Comedy franchise films and sex comedies. I was offered a sex comedy after I did Badlapur.”
“Because I stripped and I had done a short film, Ahalya, they said ‘you are constantly playing the role of a seductress.’ I said, ‘can you tell me where’? They said Ahalya and Badlapur. I have been rejecting so much work. I don’t know if it is good for me or not,” the actor said.
As the conversation delved into misogynistic art, Radhika Apte shared she is left disturbed by most Bollywood films, even those that are celebrated as endorsers of gender equality.
