Manoj Bajpayee says his initial struggling days in Mumbai were not fair; wants to KILL this about the industry : ‘Too much box-office talk’ – Exclusive 2024

Manoj Bajpayee has come a long way, right from the time he started his career with ‘Bandit Queen’, which completes 30 years this month. He’s been displaying his ace acting prowess in different projects back to back. Manoj will be sharing screen space with Konkona Sen Sharma in Abhishek Chaubey’s ‘Killer Soup‘. The trailer of the same is filled with quirk and thrill. The actors along with the director spoke to ETimes regaring this web-show.
During a rapid fire session with, Manoj recalled his struggling phase, when he was trying to make it as an actor. When asked about the one phase of his life, he wants to erase or kill, the actor said, “My initial days in Mumbai, that was too hard. That was not too fair and it isn’t quite fair on anyone.”
Konkona and Abhishek were also a part of this discussion. The actors also picked on the one thing about the film industry which they don’t like and want to kill. While Konkona said, ‘It’s all too hierarchical’, Manoj agreed and added, “There’s too much talk about box office all the time.”
Abhishek Chaubey lauged and said, “There’s feudalism, sexism, nexism, box office-ism. However, what’s wrong with the film industry is wrong with many other industries. I don’t think the film industry is any different in that sort.”
Watch the rapid fire here:

While talking about his character, Bajpayee said, “There are two roles in the film and you see a mix of both these characters. We were going day by day and scene by scene, everyday for the role. Because we couldn’t decide the ‘sur’ (tone) of the character just at the reading stage. We can’t find the right pitch of any character. There were some things we had before hand while reading the script, as a back-story, but those were the things we needed to remember. The challenge was to go deep into it while doing it, because morning you’re doing Prabhakar, evening you’re doing Umesh, and somewhere you’re doing a mix of both. Invariably Abhishek used to say, ‘okay’ in 2-3 takes and I was still unsure. We were all just trying to do as much as possible and move on from there.”