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HT Brunch Exclusive Cover Story: The Manoj Bajpayee you never knew

Hindustan Times | ByApurva Asrani
Dec 17, 2019 06:43 PM IST

Interviewed by friend, colleague and National-award winning editor Apurva Asrani, the actor reveals more than he ever has!

Manoj Bajpayee is almost an hour late for our meeting. He calls me thrice with traffic updates. I answer in monosyllables. He knows I’m sulking. “I’m sorry, Apu, please don’t be mad at me,” he says, alighting from an unassuming car. How can I be mad at him? He’s as real as they get! But I don’t tell him that. I say, “You’re buying drinks tonight, and I’m getting the most expensive cocktails.” “Done,” he says relieved. “I’m buying dinner too.”

Location courtesy: Um Doiss Tres, Mumbai; Make-up: Milind Chavan; Hair: Sachin Jadhav; Blazer and T-shirt, Zara; sunglasses, Diesel(Shivangi Kulkarni)
Location courtesy: Um Doiss Tres, Mumbai; Make-up: Milind Chavan; Hair: Sachin Jadhav; Blazer and T-shirt, Zara; sunglasses, Diesel(Shivangi Kulkarni)
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
“I don’t have a problem with star kids. I have a problem with the so-called ‘owners’ of the film industry, who look at us as ‘outsiders’ and don’t respect us.”
“Most of these kids didn’t see Satya, [Gangs Of] Wasseypur or even Aligarh. But they know me now thanks to The Family Man”
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
“If you are a person who believes in ability and hard work and not surrendering to peoples’ whims and fancies, then it is quite an impossible industry”
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
“My drunkenness? See, I couldn’t stand those filmi parties where people pretended to like everything about everyone and later say shit behind their backs. The only way I could tolerate them was if I had a few drinks”
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
Blazer and T-shirt, Zara (Shivangi Kulkarni)
“I’ve accepted that you can’t change people, but you can control your reactions”
Shabana (Manoj’s wife) had debuted as Neha in Kareeb, a film that released in 1998, the same year as Satya
Shabana (Manoj’s wife) had debuted as Neha in Kareeb, a film that released in 1998, the same year as Satya
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