Radhika Apte boycott trends flooded Twitter Friday, unprovoked. But then again, even the slightest things provoke the online audience today, so one never really knows what could become a trigger. For 35-year-old Apte, intimate scenes she did in the 2015 film Parched have stirred commotion. Again.
Back when the film released, troll armies had swooped down on her raising concerns over the 'destruction' of Indian culture, all because Apte essayed a role on-screen (rather fabulously, might I add).
Regurgitating those same, now-monotonous arguments, defenders of morality have armed themselves with six-year-old visuals from Parched, where Apte is pictured semi-nude with actor Adil Hussain, and are demanding for a mass boycott of her. Read more here.