English Movie Review The Wedding Guest - Cast & Crew

Radhika Apte, an Indian actress was born on Sept 7, 1985. Radhika has acted in films in many languages ranging in Hindi, Marathi and many southern languages as well. She has also worked in a theatre group Aasakta. She was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her Tamil film Dhoni. Her father Dr. Charudutt Apte is Pune’s leading neurosurgeon. She got married to musician Benedict Taylor in 2012. She had done her graduation in economics and mathematics from Fergusson College, Pune. She has learnt contemporary dance at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

She started work in Hindi movies from her first small role in “Vaah Life Ho To Aisi” in 2005. In 2009 she did her debut in Marathi Industry from Gho Mala Asla Hava, she played the character of a village girl named Savitri and worked in some more films that year. She had worked in Vakratunda Swaha, which was filmed by Ashish Avikunthak over a period of 12 years. Also she played one of the lead roles in Anurag Kashyap's short film on eve teasing, That Day After Everyday which was released on YouTube in 2012. The main roles she played were in Rakht Charitra and in its second part. This year she did remarkable work in Badlapur and Hunterrr and got a lot of appreciation for that as well from Bollywood critics and her audiences. She is a very bold and fearless person as shown in her choice of films. She is working in multiple movies this year that are either being filmed or in post production phase.

Apart from movies she is also actively involved in theatre and has done many plays in Aasakta group and also in some other plays like Purnaviram, Matra Ratra . As stated by her she believes in experimental theatre and has plans to do an English play in London as well.

Dev Patel is a British actor, who saw his first global success with ‘Slumdog Millionaire.' After watching the film like “Slumdog Millionaire,’’ people would talk about this guy Dev Patel (an actor), many film directors even had felt that actor has grown up at a young age. Many Hollywood directors appreciated ‘Slumdog Millionaire,' for the content and story-telling, but felt even that he was better than a lot of other actors who got easy recognition with this film. When the film was released, the director Danny Boyle said that the actor was heading in the right direction- closer to the Oscars, Many audiences in India became a big fan of Dev Patel. Dev Patel, who played the role of Jamal in the movie, said he had seen something different in his role to regular movies. Of course, he got best promising actor award and many more awards for Danny Boyle;s film. Of course, The Last Airbender, was his next project, and that film did not appeal like Slumdog Millionaire. 

After the film Slumdog Millionaire, he was dating his co-star Freida Pinto in 2000 but later had broken up after six years of dating. There was something wrong with his subsequent projects such as ‘’About Cherry’ and ‘The Road Within’, which did not appeal much. Later on, in 2015, he seems to strike back again with two movies,’ The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ where he plays the role hotel owner Sonny Kapoor in a lead role. Then there is ‘Chappie, where Patel will be playing a robotic expert. This actor is basically a Gujarati but identified as a British actor. He grew up in West London. Patel had inspiration from his mother in joining films. It is his mother who took him to audition for a television series. He was selected to play the role of “Anwar Kharral”, a Muslim-Pakistani in TV series ‘Skins”. This was his first break in the world of acting. Later on, he also did many more TV serials and currently busy shooting for a film’ Chappie’. This actor was born on 23 April 1990.