Radhika Apte on being omnipresent on Netflix | Radhika ‘Apt’ Hai
Radhika Apte, who is being trolled for frequently featuring in the Indian projects of Netflix, doesn’t think her association with the streaming platform has been long and that the three series getting released around the same time was just a coincidence.
Radhika had three releases — “Lust Stories”, “Sacred Games” and “Ghoul” — this year on Netflix. Twitterati started targeting the “Phobia” actress when the trailer of “Ghoul”, Netflix India’s first horror mini-series, got unveiled in July. One user wrote: “Radhika Apte is to Netflix what Alia Bhatt is to Dharma.”
She feels that for a project like “Ghoul”, it’s better to have the streaming platform on board as it has a wide reach. “I think it will be appreciated in other places as well as in India. I think it will have a longer life. I am really happy. These three projects coming at a time was just a coincidence,” said Radhika.
Radhika took notice of these memes and along with Netflix, came up with a funny video titled, “Omnipresent’. The concept of the video was to show that Radhika was playing every character. She shared the funny video with the message, “Whatever the role, Radhika apt hai (sic).” To make it more hilarious, Netflix changed its logo in the video to ‘Radflix’. The video has interesting end too which sees Radhika getting ready for the shoot, all confused trying to recollect which character she is playing. The actress then turns to the director for help- which also turns out to be her.
Whatever the role, Radhika apt hai. pic.twitter.com/H5vAI81qMG
— Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) August 27, 2018
The “Radflix” original film “Omnipresent” sees her playing multiple roles. She has also written, directed and given music to the movie. Netflix India posted another tweet. It read: “‘Pad Man’ is now streaming and we’re not just saying this because Radhika Apte is in it, but yes Radhika Apte is in it.”
Asked about her long association with Netflix, Radhika told : “It has not really been that long. ‘Sacred Games’ was the only series that I knew was a Netflix original series. ‘Lust Stories’ and ‘Ghoul’… when I shot them were not associated with Netflix. So this is just a great coincidence.
“Not just a coincidence, it’s a great opportunity that Netflix came on board and they decided to make it into a mini-series. I am so glad that it is a mini-series and not a film because there are certain things that (director) Patrick Graham really wanted to have in the project which… it was getting difficult because it was a timebound thing because of it being a film and I am so pleased that we could add that and make it into series.”
While watching Netflix Show pic.twitter.com/o1OaXCAlTx
— Rishabh Srivastava (@AskRishabh) August 27, 2018
After Lust Stories And Sacred Games Netflix Signs Radhika Apte For 'Ghoul'. Her 3rd Webseries Within A Year. 🙄
Web-series Are Temporary, #RadhikaApte Is Permanent😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/rDrwBfmWgV
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadejaaaa) August 27, 2018
Netflix India to Radhika Apte 😆 pic.twitter.com/DeOFvRdg7l
— Mast Malang ^_^ (@sanket_daksha) August 28, 2018
Netflix using Radhika Apte. pic.twitter.com/fzBSGU15vc
— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) August 27, 2018
When you open Netflix these days. pic.twitter.com/z0JawlbLPm
— Bade Chote (@badechote) August 27, 2018