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Manoj Bajpayee: We don't encourage good writers
Updated On: 31 July, 2021 07:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
Noting that industry shies away from psychological thrillers as they require clever writing, Manoj Bajpayee discusses the nuances of the genre as he fronts `Dial 100`
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Manoj Bajpayee in Dial 100
Manoj Bajpayee is the happiest when he has a sharply written script in hand. He was deeply impressed with writer-director Rensil D’Silva’s vision of Dial 100, a taut thriller. Noting that psychological thrillers are hard to come by, he says, “We don’t have well-written psychological thrillers here because we don’t encourage good writers. What I like about the genre is that it is not dependent on the background score or editing; it’s the mind games that make the audience edgy.”
The ZEE5 film revolves around Bajpayee’s cop character who receives a mysterious call at the police control room from Seema Pallav, essayed by Neena Gupta, threatening to settle old scores with him. With the cat-and-mouse game spanning over a night, he agrees that it brought back memories of Ram Gopal Varma’s slick mystery thriller he had fronted. “It reminded me of Kaun [1999]. Both films play out over one night. That said, the two are completely different. Kaun was a psychological thriller while I would term Dial 100 an emotional thriller. It addresses certain teenage issues that need to be discussed in cinema.”
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