Radhika Apte gets candid about sexual abuse in Bollywood

In recent times, especially after the #MeToo campaign that took Hollywood by storm, we have seen many Indian actors and actresses coming out in the open against the sexual harassment they faced in the industry.

Bollywood actress Radhika Apte and Marathi artiste Usha Jadhav are the latest to join the list. While Radhika has talked about her experiences previously too, this time around, she and Usha have made some startling revelations in an international documentary, titled ‘

Bollywood

's Dark Secret’, which will be aired soon.

The ‘

Padman

’ actress said that in Bollywood, some people are regarded as Gods. And since the perpetrators are so powerful, women either think that their voices won’t matter, or they fear that their careers will get ruined. All praises for the #MeToo campaign, Radhika said that the way men and women united against sexual harassment in

Hollywood

, she wishes it could happen in Bollywood as well.

Usha, too, recalled a horrifying experience, when she was told that she would need to something in return for an opportunity in films. “I said something on the lines of, 'What? I don't have money'.He said, 'No, no, no, no. It's not about money, it's about you sleeping with, maybe it can be a producer, maybe it can be a director, it can be both too’. "He started telling me that for an actress, you should be happy to have sex as and, when possible, and embrace your sexuality,” she is quoted saying in the documentary.