Radhika Apte

Acting

Radhika Apte

Born

1985-09-07 (41)

Place of birth

Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

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).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

Lust Stories 3 poster
6.3

Through four bite-sized yet emotionally resonant films, the anthology once again explores lust, love, relationships, and repressed desire, offering fresh perspectives on intimacy, longing, and human connection in all their complexity.

Lust Stories 3

2026

A Call to Spy poster
6.8

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.

A Call to Spy

2020

Monica, O My Darling poster
7.1

A slick robotics expert joins a murderous plot after a passionate affair takes a sudden turn, but nothing — not even death — is what it seems to be.

Monica, O My Darling

2022

Raat Akeli Hai - The Bansal Murders poster
6.2

When members of the Bansal family are found murdered, Inspector Jatil Yadav uncovers a trail of greed, betrayal and secrets tied to a deadly conspiracy.

Raat Akeli Hai - The Bansal Murders

2025

Last Days poster
7.4

Determined to fulfill his life’s mission, 26-year-old John Allen Chau embarks on a dangerous adventure across the globe to convert the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island to Christianity, while a detective from the Andaman Islands races to stop him before he does harm to himself or the tribe.

Last Days

2025

Sister Midnight poster
6.2

An arranged marriage in Mumbai, a cowardly, slacker husband and a slum of a house: the very ingredients that cause Uma to slowly transform into a feral and ruthless figure guided by her wildest impulses.

Sister Midnight

2025

Vikram Vedha poster
6.7

Vikram, an honest officer with the Lucknow police, is on a mission to find and eliminate gangster Vedha. However, when Vedha surrenders himself to the police and starts narrating stories to Vikram, it blurs the lines between good and evil. Vedha questions Vikram's righteousness while the latter believes he is fair and just. But is he?

Vikram Vedha

2022

Raat Akeli Hai poster
6.8

When a newly married landlord is murdered, a misfit cop’s investigation is complicated by the victim’s secretive family and his own conflicted heart.

Raat Akeli Hai

2020

Saali Mohabbat poster
5.3

A small-town housewife, Smita, is devastated to find her husband and cousin dead. What happens when the local cop, Ratan, suspects her to be the one behind their murder?

Saali Mohabbat

2024

Merry Christmas poster
6.8

A Christmas Eve encounter between two enigmatic strangers sparks a poignant connection - but a dark turn of events threatens to expose their murky past.

Merry Christmas

2024

Mrs. Undercover poster
5.3

An ace undercover agent living as a middle-class housewife is assigned a task after a decade. How will she take down a serial killer targeting ambitious women with her rusty skills?

Mrs. Undercover

2023

Medium Spicy poster
5.0

Chef Nissim, a millennial in Mumbai, finds himself at a crossroads in his love life-- Chef Gowri is a feisty go-getter who likes to live life off the beaten path while Prajakta assures a more serene and stable life. Whether to go all-in with the spice or to choose a sweeter flavour for life, is a choice that Nissim has to make. His liberal, upper middle-class family with a mixed bag of viewpoints doesn't make his decision easier.

Medium Spicy

2022

Forensic poster
5.1

Little girls begin to disappear and their bodies are found soon after in the town of Mussoorie. Police officer Megha and forensic officer Johnny join hands to nab the killer.

Forensic

2022

2010s · 40 titles

Madly poster
4.9

Madly explores love in all its permutations in six short films from a vibrant group of filmmakers representing Japan, Argentina, the UK, the US, India, and Australia. All forms of love are on display in this anthology. And all manners of feelings expressed from jubilance to depression are done so strongly.

Madly

2016

The Wedding Guest poster
5.6

Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.

The Wedding Guest

2019

Lust Stories poster
6.3

An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.

Lust Stories

2018

Andhadhun poster
7.6

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.

Andhadhun

2018

Pad Man poster
7.5

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.

Pad Man

2018

Rakht Charitra 2 poster
6.4

The sequel carries forward the tale of power and revenge which exploded in Rakht Charitra 1. The rebel leader turned politician, Pratap consolidates his political base but is forced to retread the path of vengeance once again after a rival from the past, Surya Narayan Reddy chooses to avenge the assassination of his family. Surya swears vengeance against Pratap after his family is wiped out in a bomb attack and Pratap is hell bent on decimating his enemy, even if it means separating ways with his mentor and political veteran, Shivaji.

Rakht Charitra 2

2010

Oysters poster
NR

When Sheena and Javed meet the mutual attraction is palpable. But can Sheena escape the past that brings them together?

Oysters

2016

Baazaar poster
6.1

After moving to Mumbai, an ambitious young man becomes the stock trader for a notorious businessman.

Baazaar

2018

Kabali poster
6.0

A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.

Kabali

2016

Manjhi: The Mountain Man poster
7.4

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.

Manjhi: The Mountain Man

2015

All in All Azhagu Raja poster
3.7

The film is centered around Azhaguraja (Karthi), his friend and adviser Kalyanam (Santhanam) who runs a little known TV channel. He falls head over heels for at first sight with Devi Priya (Kajal Aggarwal) daughter of a rich businessman and the rest of the story is how he wins her in the end.

All in All Azhagu Raja

2013

Parched poster
7.3

In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Parched

2015

Legend poster
5.8

Krishna, who lives in Dubai, falls in love with Sneha. He comes to India to seek the blessings of his grandmother, unaware that don Jeetendra's gang is seeking revenge.

Legend

2014

Rakht Charitra poster
7.0

Based on the life of Paritala Ravindra, the film follows his life from just a college student to being a politician in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Rakht Charitra

2010

Badlapur poster
7.0

After his wife and son are killed, a young man finds out the man behind the murder and fights against him, along committing some big mistakes.

Badlapur

2015

Hunterrr poster
6.1

An ordinary bachelor pursues girls like a hunter, but not with the intention of settling down in life.

Hunterrr

2015

X: Past Is Present poster
5.4

When a middle-aged filmmaker meets an alluring stranger at a party, he's haunted by troubling memories of his past relationships.

X: Past Is Present

2015

I Am poster
6.5

I Am is a 2011 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares the common theme of fear and each is also based on real life stories. The film was financed by donations from more than 400 different people around the world, many of whom donated through social networking sites like Facebook. There are four stories but the characters are interwoven with each story. "Abhimanyu" is based on child abuse, "Omar" on gay rights, "Megha" is about Kashmiri Pandits and "Afia" deals with sperm donation. I Am was released with subtitles in all regions as six different languages are spoken in the film: Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Kashmiri.

I Am

2011

The Ashram poster
5.5

After receiving a cryptic message, American skeptic Jamie travels to the Indian Himalayas to pick up on the trail of his disappeared girlfriend. There, he discovers a secretive community led by a guru with strange powers who may or may not be involved in her disappearance. As Jamie travels deeper down the rabbit hole, he quickly realizes he may have uncovered more than he bargained for, and that this mysterious mountain may contain the secrets of reincarnation - and a portal to another dimension.

The Ashram

2018

The Kill poster
6.0

A tribal man in central India finds himself at a crossroads where he must choose between winning his family's trust and betraying his religious beliefs, thereby endangering an innocent life.

The Kill

2016

Vakratunda Swaha poster
7.0

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”.

Vakratunda Swaha

2010

Lai Bhaari poster
6.6

Sumitra travels to Pandharpur to find a ray of hope, after Sangram killed her husband and son and took over their business.

Lai Bhaari

2014

Phobia poster
6.9

A talented artist tries to curb her phobia of being in public places, only to be convinced that a malevolent spirit is haunting her.

Phobia

2016

Tukaram poster
7.3

Tukaram's transformation into a extremely compassionate spiritual saint who filled people with compassion.

Tukaram

2012

Shor in the City poster
6.3

Various residents and career-criminals face challenges in crime-laden Mumbai.

Shor in the City

2011

Pune 52 poster
6.0

Amar works as a private detective and tries to make his overbearing wife happy. He becomes involved in a police investigation and has an affair with his client's paramour.

Pune 52

2013

That Day After Everyday poster
5.5

A short film on eve teasing by Anurag Kashyap, it talks about issues related to gender sensitization and equality of genders.

That Day After Everyday

2013

Kaun Kitney Paani Mein poster
5.7

The film wryly expresses the changes in hierarchy, caste and the power equation when water, the most important resource, vanishes and how the oppressed become the oppressors.

Kaun Kitney Paani Mein

2015

Ahalya poster
7.5

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.

Ahalya

2015

Ha Bharat Maza poster
NR

When Sukhatme's youngest son narrowly fails his entrance exams, the family are presented with a financial and moral conundrum.

Ha Bharat Maza

2012

Chithiram Pesuthadi 2 poster
4.0

Thiru, a hired killer, attacks a dreaded gangster with a sickle. However, he is forced to go underground after a man named Kathir witnesses his crime.

Chithiram Pesuthadi 2

2019

Haram poster
2.8

Balu and Isha are colleagues in a corporate company who fall in love and get married. This urban married couple's life changes, and they begin to struggle with irreconcilable differences.

Haram

2015

Kriti poster
6.8

Sapan has fallen in love... again! And this time, it's a beautiful girl called "Kriti". But is his love real? Probably Dr. Kalpana, a psychiatrist, can help him figure that out. Can she?

Kriti

2016

Lion poster
3.2

He (Balakrishna Nandamuri) gets injured and goes into coma at a hospital in Mumbai. When he wakes up he vaguely remembers what happened to him. He remembers himself as Bose. But, he is identified as Godse, CEO of a company in Mumbai. As he is having memory issues, he goes to Hyderabad to search for his past. He finds his parents and his lover. But they deny him. Are they his real parents or is it just a feeling of deja vu? Rest of the story is all about what led to his injury and how he fights his way back!

Lion

2015

The Bright Day poster
10.0

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 Bright Day

2012

No artwork available
4.0

Vetri (Ajmal), Professor (Mano) and Ganesh run away from Chennai to Ooty, where they meet a lawyer Sujatha (Radhika Apte). For Sujatha it is love at first sight as she falls for Vetri. Sujatha discovers after an accident that police are on their trail and they are accused in a murder case after escaping from a mental health institute.

Vetri Selvan

2014

Dhoni poster
5.8

A 14 year old boy aspires to become an attacking wicketkeeper-batsman, where his father wants his son to become a MBA graduate.

Dhoni

2012

Not a Fairy Tale poster
6.6

Five young people are driven by primal human instincts - to escape, find thrill, seek revenge or wait for destiny. And one old wizened man is trying to touch upon their minds.

Not a Fairy Tale

2013

Bombairiya poster
7.0

It follows the story of Meghna, who gets embroiled in a series of events after her phone gets stolen.

Bombairiya

2019

Postcard poster
NR

The film is about a postman, whose wife has a habit of reading the letters of people. A postman's job is to deliver letters, and initially he never gets involved with the content of the letters. But when his wife comes across a letter and shares the content with her husband, since then the postman also unknowingly gets attached to the recipients and their emotions. The content of the letters make him restless, and somewhere he starts feeling guilty, thinking whether he should help these people. And what comes ahead is a masterpiece journey of his life.

Postcard

2014

2000s · 5 titles

Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! poster
5.3

As the only employed member of a large family, Aditya Singh a big-hearted mechanic, works hard to provide for his siblings, his grandmother and a bevy of nieces and nephews. But, when he is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, his family's future becomes a murky prospect. Fearful for their safety and happiness, Aditya convinces Yamraj the Hindu god of death, to give him a chance to return -- as a ghost -- to carry out the unresolved business of his life.

Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!

2005

Antaheen poster
6.2

Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain each of them goes through.

Antaheen

2009

Gho Mala Asala Hawa poster
NR

Savitri, a young girl, revolts against the age-old custom of arranged marriages. Despite facing troubles, she manages to convince an entire village about the upshots of pre-planned matches.

Gho Mala Asala Hawa

2009

No artwork available
NR

An unnamed city in india the present. Four friends. Aakash, Rishi, Mota (Nilesh), and Sameer study in graduate college. All except Rishi work in the IT enabled service sector. They regularly hang out at coffee bars where they indulge in casual chatting. Aakash, Mota and Sameer check on classes and the curriculum from Rishi, who is the only one amongst them who attends college regularly. The others are too busy working and enjoying the lifestyle that their salaries bring them

Amidst

2006

Parallel Folds poster
NR

A prosperous but lonely businessman has suicidal thoughts as his 60th birthday approaches. Then, he runs into his college sweetheart. Her mesmerizing beauty, poise and silence suddenly personify his vacuum of last 30 years. He was oblivious to his soul mate's shocking yesteryear's. Shama had chosen to be a recluse - hidden from the light of sunrise. Her life hasn't turned out the way she'd hoped, either. Can the couple find hope and rekindle their love?

Parallel Folds

2009

Series credits

The Kapil Sharma Show poster
7.0

Kapil Sharma is back with his gang - Bindu, Chandan and 'mohalle ki dhoban' Gudiya. In tow is a new character, Maski, along with Goli, Roopmati and more! Enjoy guaranteed laughter with Kapil and his antics as different celebrities join in.

The Kapil Sharma Show

2016

Comedy Nights Bachao poster
6.3

Based on the format of roast comedy, the show features comic crusaders who take a jibe at celebrity guests testing their patience through slapstick humor and make unpleasant jokes about them.

Comedy Nights Bachao

2015

Made in Heaven poster
7.2

The story of two wedding planners in Delhi, where tradition jostles with modern aspirations against the backdrop of big fat Indian weddings revealing many secrets and lies.

Made in Heaven

2019

GHOUL poster
6.8

A newly minted military interrogator arrives at a covert detention center to discover that some of the terrorists held there are not of this world.

GHOUL

2018

Sacred Games poster
7.8

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.

Sacred Games

2018

Son of Abish poster
6.8

Son Of Abish is a variety comedy talk show with host Abish Mathew.

Son of Abish

2014

Comedy Nights Live poster
6.0

Comedy Nights Live is an Indian stand-up comedy television series. Krushna Abhishek hosts the show. Siddharth Sagar, Sudesh Lehri, Upasana Singh, Bharti Singh, Rashmi Desai are some of the comedians of the show. Madhuri Dixit was the first celebrity to appear on the show.

Comedy Nights Live

2016

BFFs with Vogue poster
5.2

Celebrities open up about everything from movies and fashion to personal style mantras and the latest gossip in Bollywood.

BFFs with Vogue

2016

Stories by Rabindranath Tagore poster
7.8

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.’

Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

2015

Akka poster
NR

Set in the 1980s matriarchal society of a fictional city of Pernuru, South India, women reign supreme and power has a new name - Akka! Akka is the tale of gangster queens whose matriarchal rule is challenged when an outsider brings an unseen threat, spiralling the all-powerful sisterhood into a chaos storm of violence and survival.

Akka

2026

OK Computer poster
7.2

The year is 2031. In a New India - of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways - hard-boiled Cyber Crime detective Saajan Kundu is called out of retirement when a self-driving taxi is hacked and ordered to kill an anonymous human victim. Saajan begrudgingly joins forces with estranged partner Laxmi Suri, a whip-smart AI scientist, to comb the modern backwaters of Goa for the killer.

OK Computer

2021

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