At this point in time, awards don’t add or subtract anything from your career,” he announces, fanning our curiosity a tad bit. After all, the actor is fresh from two back-to-back Filmfare wins not just for his film, Aligarh, but also his short, Taandav. Manoj Bajpayee, posterboy of good cinema, lets us in on why award ceremonies are losing credibility, how he has never been to LA and the transitions he noticed in Bengali cinema. In town to promote Naam Shabana, he opens up on Om Puri’s final words to him.
At this point in time, awards don’t add or subtract anything from your career,” he announces, fanning our curiosity a tad bit. After all, the actor is fresh from two back-to-back Filmfare wins not just for his film, Aligarh, but also his short, Taandav. Manoj Bajpayee, posterboy of good cinema, lets us in on why award ceremonies are losing credibility, how he has never been to LA and the transitions he noticed in Bengali cinema. In town to promote Naam Shabana, he opens up on Om Puri’s final words to him.