Actress Radhika Apte is now sitting pretty on the cushion of her online superstardom. “I don’t think 2018 was a breakout year or anything. It is just that I love Netflix as a viewer and as an actor. They are just brilliant with their work, concept and also their marketing team. It was amazing how they churned out the memes and dealt with trolls with their great sense of humour. But I must say that they (accusations by trolls) were baseless. As in Lust Stories and Sacred Games I had small parts to play. It was only Ghoul that I was part of completely. I enjoyed and laughed at most of them. And somebody had told me once that if you are part of memes, that means you have arrived,” she told a youth enclave over the weekend.
“Talking about memes, I remember one of them clearly which was in fact creative. It said, ‘It looks like pani puri is over and I’m waiting for dry puri (on her expressions being the same in all series).’ People say I have the same expression in every kind of a role. It doesn’t bother me as I don’t take the pressure. I want to have the freedom to fail and then bounce back. I take compliments and criticism equally.”