Radhika Apte

Acting

Radhika Apte

Born 1985-09-07 · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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).

Acting credits

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

A Call to Spy poster
6.7

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

The Wedding Guest poster
5.7

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

Raat Akeli Hai - The Bansal Murders poster
6.1

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
7.5

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

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

Parched poster
7.3

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

Parched

2015

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

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

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

Kabali poster
6.0

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

Kabali

2016

Baazaar poster
6.1

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

Baazaar

2018

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

Sister Midnight poster
6.1

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

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

Lion poster
3.6

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

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

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

The Ashram poster
5.4

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

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

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

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

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

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

Behind the camera