Radhika Apte

Some Lesser Known Facts About Radhika Apte

• Does Radhika Apte smoke?: Yes

• Does Radhika Apte drink alcohol?: Yes

• Radhika Apte belongs to a Marathi family. Her father, Charudutt Apte is the chairman and surgeon at the Sahyadri Hospital in Pune.

  

• Her favourite subject was Mathematics. Her grandmother, Madhumalati Apte, who was a mathematician and a PhD from France, used to teach her maths.

• Radhika is a trained Kathak dancer and received training in it for eight years.

• At the age of 18, Radhika started acting in the Marathi theatre plays, and her debut play was ‘Nako Re Baba’ (2003).

• She has done a number of plays in Hindi and English languages.

• Radhika Apte is associated with Mohit Takalkar’s theatre troupe, Aasakta Kalamanch in Pune.

• Some of her notable theatre plays are Purnaviram, Tu, Kanyadaan, Matra Ratra, Brain Surgeon, That Time, Bombay Black, etc.

• She started her acting career in 2005 in the Bollywood film, Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!, in which she played the role of Anjali.

  

• She loves doing grey roles rather than the typical glamorous roles.

• Radhika has worked in Hindi, English, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam films.

• In 2014, her nine films were released in different languages, for which she was highly praised by the critics.

• In 2015, she made her television debut with the Hindi TV series, Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, in which she portrayed the character of Binodini.

• In 2018, Radhika co-wrote the Bollywood film, Lust Stories. She also played the lead role of Kalindi in it.

  

• She has also worked in a number of short films in different languages like ‘Darmiyan’ (2008), ‘Vakratunda Swaha’ (2010), ‘That Day After Everyday’ (2013), ‘The Calling’ (2015), etc.

• Her role in the Netflix horror miniseries, Ghoul (2018) as Nida Rahim gave her huge fame.

  

• Radhika Apte has been featured on the cover of various magazines like Femina Wedding Times, Grazia India, Cosmopolitan India, and Better Homes and Gardens India.

  

• She is a good friend of Kalki Koechlin.

  

• She lives in Mumbai while her husband “Benedict Taylor” lives in London, though they visit each other often.

• Actor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, once revealed that he had a secret crush on her.

  

• She is an avid dog lover.