India, Jan. 5 -- The rise of toxic, alpha characters on the big screen in Hindi cinema has been a topic of discussion since films like Animal (2023), and more recently Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat and Tere Ishk Mein (2025) have done well at the box office. In her recent film Saali Mohabbat, actor Radhika Apte also played a character who commits a murder as her husband cheats on her. However, the actor insists that such acts should not be glorified and seen as acts of passionate love.

"That's the problem. I don't think that in the film, what happens is something happening out of passionate love. It's happening because of accumulated acute injustice and treatment of her. I don't like to glorify that as some passionate love for the partner or a...