Updated On: 30 April, 2020 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Shaheen Parkar, Upala KBR, Sonia Lulla
We faced both rejection and acceptance from the audience and the industry.

Manoj Bajpayee
Though Irrfan and I did not share screen space, we featured together in two films, Akash Deep's Ghaath (2000), and Suparn Verma's Acid Factory (2009).
In the second, we were together in only one fleeting scene. We knew each other because our roots [lay in] theatre. I knew him from the time we began our careers, and we followed each other's journey in films. I looked at him with tremendous regard. We went through the same [experiences] at the same time: We struggled together, and as outsiders, fought for the same thing: to earn our place in different types of films.