Manoj Bajpayee Guns for Action Hero Status in ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Manoj Bajpayee, known as one of India’s finest actors, is adopting a mass-market action hero persona in upcoming film “Bhaiyya Ji.” The story, where Bajpayee’s character faces off against a powerful man and his henchmen to seek revenge for wrongs done to his family, is literally ripped from the headlines.
The actor read the real-life story in a newspaper several years ago and it stayed with him. “I wanted to do an independent film and really explore this mindset of revenge, where it comes from, really analyze it and find the psychology of revenge in the human mind, that fascinated me,” Bajpayee told Variety.
While shooting courtroom drama “Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai” (2023), the actor mentioned it to director Apoorv Singh Karki, who was similarly fascinated by the idea. “I just wanted his opinion on it.
But this guy jumped up and said, ‘I’m a big fan of mass entertainers, and it has been my dream to make a South Indian-style mass entertainer,'” Bajpayee said.
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