Nude and Sex scenes from Radhika Apte’s upcoming Movie Parched, directed by Leena Yadav, went viral online, taking the producers by surprise.. One of the clips showed off her bare back awhile the other features her frontal nudity. The makers had planned to blur out the latter for the film’s theatrical release in India.
Producer Aseem Bajaj was unaware of the incident and when informed said he may approach the cyber cell of the Mumbai police to have them removed. “I don’t think the leak happened in India. The film has released in the US and France and it’s possible someone uploaded them from there. The scenes are not sensational or titillating in any way. But in our country, while rape videos are available freely, sex is still considered taboo, so we had planned to blur out the breasts. Radhika plays a woman who has been beaten up all her life and is yearning for a loving touch,“ he informed a leading tabloid.
The film is about three women in a remote village in Gujarat who break free of century-old traditions which have kept them locked in servitude. The producer goes on to add that there was never any intention to objectify the actress. “She’s like my sister, we did not set out to exploit her in any way. This kind of attitude stems from the way people view such scenes. I didn’t see men in the US and France `getting excited’. We haven’t sent the film to the Indian censors yet, but I am confident the CBFC will understand the thought behind them and agree that they are integral to the narrative. We are not ashamed of these scenes.“
Speaking around the leak, Adil said that it’s freaky and it shows how sexually obsessed a lot of people in our society are.He added, “It felt very weird. It shows how sexually obsessed a lot of people in our society are. You leak only the sex scene and no other beautiful scenes from the film.It only shows that we are extremely obsessed about sex and yet we don’t want to talk about it. We shun it, shove it under the carpet and don’t want to show it to people.”
This isn’t the first time Radhika’s nude scenes have been leaked online. Last year, a clip from Anurag Kashyap’s 20-minute short film made its way to the internet too. The cyber cell had registered a case against an unknown person for leaking the clip.
There has been no comments from Radhika Apte.
