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Manoj Bajpayee: Professional life, even now, doesn't bother me much
Updated On: 07 March, 2020 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Ahead of Hitlist Web Awards, the 'Family Man', over a long sit-down chat, traces his journey from farmland in Bihar
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Manoj Bajpayee. Pics/Ashish Rane
In a way, the journey of Bombay cinema's transition into millennial cool, late-90s/early-2000s onwards — what with even 'indies' beginning to merge with Bollywood mainstream — starts from a street in Delhi. It's officially named Sudhir Bose Marg, where colleges of Delhi University's (DU) North Campus are lined up one after another, on either side.
If you survey this street late '80s onwards, you'd find Manoj Bajpayee enrolled in Ramjas College, fresh off a train from Bihar. Bajpayee says he also used to perform in plays at the next-door Hindu College, where there was actor Ashish Vidyarthi. When not representing university in cricket, Vishal Bhardwaj (from Meerut) would score music for those plays. "Rekha, Vishal's girlfriend [later his wife], was learning classical music."
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