Virtual presence: Actor Manoj Bajpayee at 52nd IFFI
⊕ 52nd IFFI
Panaji: For actor Manoj Bajpayee, life of an Indian middle class is a comedy which inspires his characters.
“I never try to make the character larger than life. I always try to live in the reality and make the character a representative of the masses.” The actor told actor Ankur Pathak, who moderated an ‘In-conversation session’ on the ‘Creating Cult Icons: India’s own James Bond with the family man’ held on the sidelines of the 52nd International Film Festival of India in Goa, today.
Addressing the session virtually, Manoj said he didn’t need to search Srikant Tiwari, his character in the The Family Man web series, anywhere else. “I got it within me, in my family, in my surrounding and everywhere”, he said.
He said that The Family Man is a story of a middle class Indian guy, who is trying to find a balance between a demanding job and a demanding family. “When Raj and DK came to me with the synopsis, I was sold out to it”, added Manoj.
Raj Nidimoru, Krishna D.K., famed as Raj and DK who directed ‘The Family Man’, said they wanted to do a Pan-India story. “The biggest expression of freedom that we experience when we started The Family Man series was why should we limit ourselves? To break the barrier and make the story pan-India, we reached out to the actors, crew and writers from different regions”, said the duo.
Actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu, said that Raji, her character in the web series was the most vulnerable and challenging role for her and she sought a lot of handholding and training for this. “Raji was so new, unique and exciting. It allowed me to explore a new dimension and the actor in me couldn’t refuse this challenge”, she said.
– global bihari bureau
