Radhika Apte named Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone as the only actresses who can hope to open a theatrical release

Actress Radhika Apte has said that even if she starred in the best theatrical film possible, it would not perform at the box office if her name alone were expected to sell tickets. She named actors like Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone as the only two actresses who can realistically be expected to open a theatrical release on their own.

Speaking to PTI ahead of her upcoming Netflix series Akka, in which she stars alongside Keerthy Suresh, Radhika Apte said she does not factor the medium of release into her decisions about which projects to take on. “I don’t really care about it,” she said. “There are so many business decisions dependent on that. I’d rather be like, ‘let the film come out one way or another.’”

She then addressed the reality of what a theatrical release means for an actress in her position.…