Radhika Apte Recounts How She Was Exploited In Bollywood, Says She Was Asked To Work For Free

Radhika Apte has indeed come a long way inher career. And the journey wasn’t easy. She has her share of struggles and boy,it is one inspiring one

In her recent interview with Grazia, Radhika opened her heart out and spoke about how she felt exploited in Ram Gopal Verma’s Rakht Charitra and was denied her fees for her role in Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi featuring Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao.

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Radhika said, “Ifelt very exploited because I wasn’t getting paid much. They told me I’d bedoing one film but then they made me shoot in Tamil and Telugu as well”.

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Calling the behaviour obnoxious on the sets of Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi she said,?

“They saidthey couldn’t afford to pay me and asked me to do it for free. When on set, Irealised that even the child artists were being paid”. Radhika played the roleof Shahid Kapoor’s sister in the film.

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The Sacred Gamesactress shared how things were after she did Shor In The City featuringTusshar Kapoor, “I auditioned with the scene in which Tilak (played by TussharKapoor) asks Sapna (my character) whether she can read. It’s one of the veryfew scenes I’ve auditioned for and gotten the part, so I clearly remember it.It was a three-day gig with a cool pay-off of INR 72,000.” Radhika even shared that she was later called by the makersas they wanted Sapna to have a meatier part in the film.

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Making it bigin the industry isn’t easy and Radhika’s story is proof.