Radhika Apte
Acting
Biography
Radhika Apte is an Indian film and stage actress. Apte began her acting career in theater, working with the theater troupe Aasakta in her home town, before venturing into films. She made her feature film debut with a brief role in the Hindi fantasy Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005). Apte's first starring role was in the 2009 Bengali social drama Antaheen. She made her Marathi film debut in 2009 with the tragic romance Samaantar. Her Bollywood breakthrough came in 2015, following acclaimed performances in the thriller Badlapur and the comedy Hunterrr, Manjhi - The Mountain Man—and received wide appreciation for the psychological thriller Phobia (2016).
Born: September 7, 1985
Place of Birth: Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Known For
The Bright Day
Yearning for meaning in his life, a coddled young man abandons his girlfriend and family to set out on a spiritual quest. Shot with sophisticated DSLR cameras and reflecting a new passion in India for personal filmmaking, The Bright Day finds images to chart a soul's progress.
The Nexus: Shadows of Destiny
The Nexus: Shadows of Destiny is a movie about how the lives of different people, who don’t know each other, become connected in surprising ways. Each person has their own problems, secrets, and dreams. As the story goes on, their actions unknowingly affect each other, leading to big twists and unexpected events. The film is about fate, choices, and how people’s lives are linked, even when they don’t realize it.
Vakratunda Swaha
In 1997, Ashish Avikunthak filmed a sequence -- a friend and artist, Girish Dahiwale, immersing an idol of Ganesha at Chowpati beach, Bombay on the last day of the Ganapati festival. A year later, he committed suicide. After twelve years, Avikunthak completed the film. Using his footage as the leitmotif, this film is a requiem to a dead friend, and metamorphosises into an “existential inquiry into the idea of death”.
Sacred Games
A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
The characters of Tagore’s stories spring into life through the cinematic imagination of acclaimed filmmaker, Anurag Basu in ‘Stories By Rabindranath Tagore’. ‘Stories By Rabindranath Tagore’ shares with us the intricately etched characters created by the master himself and brought onto the small screen by the visionary director of ‘Barfi’ and ‘Life in a Metro.’
Andhadhun
A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.
Pad Man
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
After his wife passes away trying to cross a mountain, Manjhi, out of sheer rage, sets on a quest to carve a road through the treacherous mountain.
Ahalya
Ahalya, set as a modern-day thriller, is an ode to a legend from Ramayana. The 14-minute-long film replays the deadly game of Gods, spinning a web of intrigue, seduction, desire and mystery between Gods and Apsaras. Ahalya is a deadly game you can’t escape.
Tukaram
Tukaram's transformation into a extremely compassionate spiritual saint who filled people with compassion.
Filmography
as Meera Ganali
as Uma
as Smita/Kavita
as Rosie
as Durga
as ACP Vyjayanti Naidu
as Priya
as Megha Sharma
as Gargi Joag
as Laxmi Suri
as Noor Inayat Khan
as Radha
as Pallavi Menke
as Samira
as Durga
as Meghna
as Priya Rai
as Sophie
as Nida Rahim
as Anjali Mathur
as Kalindi
as Gayatri
as Gayatri Chauhan
as The Wife
as Self
as Sheena
as Kumudhavalli
as Dr Kalpana
as Mehak
as Self
as Archana (segment "Clean Shaven")
as Herself
as Rija
as Lajjo
as Self
as Paro
as Phaguniya
as Ahalya
as Binodini
as Sarayu
as Tripti Gokhale
as Koko
as Isha
as Kavita
as Gulzar
as Radhika
as Nandita
as Herself
as Meenakshi
as Lady #1
as Sananda
as Kid #1
as Rukmini
as Aaavli
as Nalini
as Natasha
as Sapna
as Nandini
as Nandini
as Self
as Reva
as Savitri
as Brinda
as Anjali
as Neha Sharma