Actors today spend a considerable amount of time as prep-up for a film before it goes on floors. And Radhika Apte is no stranger to this exercise. For her role as an agoraphobic (a person who fears open spaces) in Pavan Kripalani's Phobia, the actress did a lot of research to get into the skin of her character — meeting doctors and patients apart from reading up extensively on the subject and gathering as much information as possible.

Radhika Apte