In a new interview, actress Radhika Apte has opened up on sex comedies. She has revealed how sex comedies came to her after Varun Dhawan’s Badlapur. Although she clarified that she had no problem with the genre, she rejected such films because the subjects could be demeaning to women. She said that she would not be part of projects celebrating jokes about women.
In Badlapur, Radhika Apte played the role of Vinay Pathak’s wife. In one scene, she stripped to nothing to save her husband’s life from Varun Dhawan. After the film’s release, Radhika said that she was offered a role in a sex comedy. But she turned it down.
She said, “I think a couple of sex comedies were offered to me after Badlapur. I don’t have a problem with sex comedies. Hunterrr (2015) could be called a sex comedy as well. But, the kind of sex comedies we had, in the past, can be very derogatory to women and can be very very objectified. They objectify women and I don’t like the humour. So, I don’t do it.”
She further added that a lot of times, the time has been an issue for big-budget films. She added that a film’s script plays a big role for her in determining the intent of a sex-comedy film.
She added, “If you read the script, you know what the film is talking about. And what kind of jokes are made? I don’t mind a film where a chauvinist guy makes horrible jokes about women. But, you are trying to show something else; there’s a story to it and it becomes something else. But, as a film, if you start celebrating those jokes then I am not going to be a part of it.”