Manoj Bajpayee has been in the movies for over two decades now, and while the actor has worked with some of the most renowned directors of the Hindi film industry, he has also had major disagreements with many of them. In a recent interview, when Manoj was asked about his extended tiffs with Anurag Kashyap, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Anubhav Sinha, and Hansal Mehta, the actor said that since they are all friends, they tend to fight with each other sometimes. The actor, however, admitted that he had an uncontrollable temper when he lived in Delhi before moving to Mumbai, and would often get in fights in local DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) buses in the capital.
“I used to get really furious in DTC buses. Because whenever I would see that someone was misbehaving with a woman, and if the woman was protesting, then I would really beat that guy up. Most of my fights in Delhi have happened because of this. I have no regrets over that,” he shared with Jist. When the interviewer brought up Manoj’s fights in Bihar, the actor brushed it aside, claiming that it was teenage angst that compelled him to get into altercations.
He shared, “In Bihar, our fights would be… we were almost 17-18, when gangs fights with each other, like gangs of different neighbourhoods, those kind of fights used to happen.” When the interviewer brought up an FIR, the actor laughed, and said, “Let it be, that was a different time.” Manoj described himself as a “shy, quiet and a really angry person,” and said that his anger got worse in subsequent years. “That anger just kept increasing during my struggle days. I have learnt to control my anger now. In a way, I have complete control on it now,” he said.
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Manoj said that it is “easy” to control one’s anger if one puts their mind to it, citing the example of his decision to quit smoking. “I understood it a long time ago that this anger is not right for me and it is only damaging me,” he said. Manoj claimed that he has won against his anger.
Manoj will next be seen in Netflix’s Killer Soup.
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