Radika Apte Profile, Biography, Filmography & Photos

Name : Radika Apte
Date Of Birth (DOB, Birth Date) : 7 September 1985
Occupation : Actress, Model
Spouse(Husband) :  Benedict Taylor
Age : 28years old(in 2013)
Status : Married
Birth Place : Pune, Maharastra

Apte was born on September 7, 1985 in Pune. She is an Economics graduate from Fergusson College, Pune. She is associated with Mohit Takalkar’s theatre troupe Aasakta in her hometown. She is the daughter of Pune’s leading neurosurgeons Dr Charu Apte. After doing four films, she moved to London and studied contemporary dance at London’s Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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 appeared in a significant role in Ram Gopal Varma's Rakhtcharitra and its sequel. She also appeared in Shor in the City under Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Films banner. She was also seen in Maneej Premnath’s thriller The Waiting Room. Apte will also star in Akash Khurana’s Life on Life, about a bunch of youngsters working in a BPO and Amol Palekar’s Marathi film, Samaantar.

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 has finished shooting for two Hindi films — Mountain Man directed by Ketan Mehta and Vasu by Harsh Kulkarni and a Tamil film, Vetri Selvan. Mountain Man is based on Dashrath Manjhi and Radhika plays Manjhi’s wife Falguni Devi in the film.

She recently got married to her British boyfriend Benedict Taylor. Radhika met Benedict, a London-based musician, in 2012 during her year-long sabbatical when she had gone to learn contemporary dance.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2005	Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!	Anjali	Hindi
2006	Darmiyan	Ekta	Hindi
2009	Antaheen	Brinda	Bengali
	Gho Mala Asla Hava	Savitri	Marathi
	Samaantar	Rewa	Marathi
2010	The Waiting Room	Tina	Hindi
	Rakht Charitra I	Nandini	Hindi/Telugu
	Rakht Charitra II		Hindi/Telugu
2011	I Am		Hindi
	Shor in the City	Sapna	Hindi
2012	Dhoni	Nalini	Tamil/Telugu	Nominated—SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
	Tukaram	Aavli	Marathi
2013	Rupkatha Noy	Sananda	Bengali
	Vetri Selvan		Tamil	Post-production
	Mountain Man	Falguni Devi	Hindi	Post-production
	Vasu		Hindi	Post-production
	Pendulum		Bengali	Post-production
	The Bright Day	Rukmini	Hindi	Filming
	All in All Azhagu Raja		Tamil	Filming
	Kolai Nokku Paarvai		Tamil	Filming
	Ula		Tamil	Filming
	Lai Bhari		Marathi	Filming
	Postcard		Marathi	Filming
	Uncha Gaon Neecha Gaon		Hindi	Filming
	X		Hindi	Filming
2014	Legend		Telugu	Filming

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