Nikkhil Advani's short film in Amazon Prime Video's recent anthology, Unpaused, beautifully weaves in two crucial elements — the pandemic-induced lockdown and the #MeToo movement. While the former is the common theme that ties the five stories together, Richa Chadha says it is the latter that drew her to
Advani's project, titled The Apartment. A vociferous supporter of the #MeToo India movement, the actor plays a wife whose husband is called out as a sexual predator only days before the lockdown is imposed.

"It is such a strong subject and [depicts] the emotional trauma that a wife goes through. She is caught in a dilemma — should she trust her husband or believe the women? So, the story follows her as she [decides] whether she should give up everything that she has built over the years or give up her values. If you look at the cases so far, people have usually stood by their spouses," says Chadha, adding that the tough stand that her character takes sealed the deal for her. "Her arriving at the decision was the interesting part about the film."