Radhika Apte Calls Out Glamourisation of Obsession in Films

Apte was recently seen in "Saali Mohabbat," where she portrayed a layered character who kills her husband when she gets to know about his infidelity. While the role demands intense emotions, and extreme actions, she maintains that such roles should not be glorified or misunderstood as an expression of profound love.

While talking to Hindustan Times, Rashika propounded, "That's the problem. I don't think that in the film, what happens is something happening out of passionate love. It's happening because of accumulated acute injustice and treatment of her. I don't like to glorify that as some passionate love for the partner or anybody else in the world. This is where we go wrong on how we view it. It's clearly happening from being treated badly over and over again."

"In our culture, these acts are mistaken as love, we call it love. But it's not really love when we have to compromise our happiness repeatedly to please somebody. You can't call it love. I don't agree with the notion," she added.

While pointing out the depiction of control as passion in Bollywood, Apte stated, "Whether it's husband or husband's family or your parents, listening to them and doing whatever they want you to do, is not love. If anybody expects the other person to compromise their happiness, to do what you ask them to do, that's not love. True love is to see the other person happy and obedience is not love. That's just power and control. And I'm sick of it being called love or respect."

"It's awful and horrible. I think we should stop making these films and telling these stories. We are glorifying obsession and controlled power as passion and that's a big mistake," she further added.

Apte was last seen in "Saali Mohabbat" which is a drama-thriller set in a small town. The story revolves around the housewife whose simple and modest life is upended when two unexpected deaths disrupt everything around her.

The film has been directed by Tisca Chopra and casts Radhika Apte in the lead role, alongside Sauraseni Maitra, Divyendu Sharma, Anshumaan Pushkar, and Anurag Kashyap.