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Radhika Apte on Going Feral in Her ‘Completely Crazy’ Mumbai Comedy ‘Sister Midnight’ and Why She’s Looking Beyond Bollywood
Radhika Apte talks teaming with Karan Kandhari on the slapstick vampire comedy 'Sister Midnight' and looking beyond bigger Bollywood films in her future.
Radhika Apte, who became one of India’s first Netflix stars with titles like the series “Sacred Games” and crime comedy “Monica, O My Darling,” gets to unleash those slapstick skills in “ Sister Midnight,” now opening in New York before expanding to Los Angeles and other cities. What begins as a satire on arranged marriage then dashes off into amusing, far-flung territories, with Uma’s gloomy disposition becoming infused with a more surreal, genre-associated affliction — one that shouldn’t be spoiled, but seems a perfectly natural development under the command of Apte’s terrific deadpan performance. It was the project’s ability to finally lure a major name like Apte that put it on track, and in turn gifted the star a vehicle so low-key and outrageous that it likely would have never reached her peers.
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