Radhika Apte turns down sex comedies because they are 'deragatory to women'

Actor Radhika Apte, known for her performance in Lust Stories, Badlapur, and Andhadhun, is incredibly picky about her projects. The 37-year-old actor revealed that she turned down many sex comedies, a genre that was offered to her more after Badlapur, simply because the derogatory language against women didn’t sit well with her. Apte has said she won’t promote films that celebrate or enable sexist jokes either.

Speaking to Bollywood Hungama, Apte revealed that she was offered multiple sex comedies post the Varun Dhawan starrer-Badlapur, which she ended up turning down eventually. In Badlapur, she plays the role of Vinay Pathak’s wife. In a scene, she strips to nothing in order to save her husband’s life from Dhawan. After the film released, Radhika said she was offered roles in sex comedies, which she denied.

When asked about the reason why she would refuse a big-ticket film, Apte told the outlet, “I don’t have a problem with sex comedies. Hunterrr (2015) could be called a sex comedy as well. But, the kind of sex comedies we had, in the past, can be very derogatory to women and can be very objectified. They objectify women and I don’t like the humour. So, I don’t do it.”

Apte further added that the script plays a big part for her to decide the intention of a sex-comedy movie. “If you read the script, you know what the film is talking about. And what kind of jokes are made. I don’t mind a film where a chauvinist guy makes horrible jokes about women. But, you are trying to show something else; there’s a story to it and it becomes something else. But, as a film, if you start celebrating those jokes then I am not going to be a part of it,” she reasoned.

Apte was last seen in the actioner Vikram Vedha, starring Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan. She will be next seen in Netflix’s Monica, O My Darling.