Exclusive | Radhika Apte says she wants to forget first film Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!: ‘Producers treated me horribly, didn’t pay’

Radhika also recalled how she landed that supporting role in Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!. “I was doing a play called Brain Surgeon. It was a good play. We won an award in a state competition. Mahesh Manjrekar was one of the judges. He called me after the play and said, ‘I want to cast you,'” Radhika recounted. But of the three films Manjrekar was working on then as a director, he thought Radhika was too young to fit into the other two — the 2004 supernatural drama Rakht, starring Bipasha Basu, and the 2007 film Deha.

“Then I didn’t do a film for a long time. I finished college, and then I went back to films after a long time. So, I don’t really count that as one of the films I did. But yeah, it’s been two decades,” added Radhika. She went on to star in a Bengali movie and a couple of Marathi films before making her Hindi film debut with Ram Gopal Varma’s 2010 political action thriller Rakta Charitra, which was also made in Telugu the same year.

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Radhika was most recently seen in Tisca Chopra’s directorial debut Saali Mohabbat, which also stars Divyenndu, Anurag Kashyap, and Sharat Saxena. She plays Smita, a homemaker who finds out her husband is having an affair with her sister. Backed by Manish Malhotra’s Stage 5 Productions, the film is streaming on ZEE5.