Mumbai, Sept. 19 -- Shah Rukh Khan's romantic films gave Bollywood some of its most memorable love stories. But when Radhika Apte revisited the films she enjoyed growing up, she found herself questioning what they had taught her about romance.

In a recent interview, the actress said she has always been a huge SRK fan. Watching some of his older films again, however, left her "really taken aback." What once looked like a hero determined to win someone's heart now struck her as a man refusing to accept a woman's answer.

"When a woman says no, it's never taken as no," Radhika said. She recalled how chasing a woman was presented as romance, adding that young viewers, including herself, grew up wanting the kind of attention they saw on scree...