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Marathi actress Radhika Apte, who starred in films like Hunterr and Badlapur, is the latest victim of technology’s sinister side. Reports have it that Radhika Apte’s nude images, which she shot for a short film by ace director Anurag Kashyap, have been leaked online and doing the rounds on WhatsApp.
Speaking with a leading daily Anurag Kashyap has issued a statement that the video is a part of his short film, which is based on the true story and in this video there a scene of a women lifting up her dress and exposes her lower front part just for few seconds.
Anurag Kashyap said, “My story was inspired by a true story and is a very powerful film. It was very difficult to make this short film due to this little sequence in the film of a few seconds that involves the actress to lift her dress and expose her lower front part and needed that very minor partial nudity front shot. It took us so much time to do it in a non-sexual way, as it is meant to be absolutely non-sexual and we took all the care we could. It was not easy to find an actor who is brave enough to participate in it. The entire shooting crew was women as we knew that we were making something as sensitive as this. And there were girls at every stage of the post-production. At every stage of the post-production, that part was either sent blank or pixelated before being sent. So, nobody even knew who is a part of the film. And everybody assumes that since it is an Indian film, it will always be pixelated. After taking all the care, the film was delivered to New York a month back. And then, all of a sudden after a month from nowhere, this video popped up online.”
Anurag further said: “It has to be some Indian guy there, otherwise other material from other sources that is much more sexual is available to the West and something like this does not get them excited. I had shown the film before sending it to many of my friends including Vikramaditya Motwane’s mother and she cried as she felt it was so powerful and we needed to put out something like this. Radhika Apte herself was so proud of it. But when you put out a video like this without context, people start making jokes on it. You try to take a step forward as a filmmaker, they take you five steps back.”
The case is now being investigated by the Mumbai Police.
