“2021 has been great career wise, but few major hiccups personally”: Manoj Bajpayee
His show has been probably the most talked-about show of 2021. The Family Man is among those shows, whose second season turned out to be very well known than the first season, and catapulted Manoj Bajpayee’s fame to next level.
He calls the response ‘overwhelming’. “The manner in which people received it, and spread the word… new audiences also came in. Even though season one was a runaway success, and because of the pandemic, they again got locked up. Then people who had not watched season one, they watched it and came to the second. It took us all by surprise, the manner in which it was received globally. The feeling is very obvious, we all are very happy,” he quips.
The year has been a hectic one for the actor, shooting consecutive for new projects like Despatch, and Ray, Dial 100 and Silence… Can You Hear It? releasing on OTT platforms.
“It continues to be hectic. With the commitments I have in hand, it is only going to be like this till the end of 2023. I am supposed to finish all the films I have committed to, it is exhausting. But I can’t help it. Only for this reason, I have stopped reading new scripts and taking narrations. At this point of time, I don’t have any dates,” says Bajpayee.
Aside from the professional highs, had to face some personal lows too. He got Covid, the shoot of his film Despatch needed to stop because of Covid cases on set, and he lost his dad. He says, “On few counts, it was a difficult time. I lost my father… you cannot compensate for your parents, that is something one has to live with. I am learning to live with that fact.”
