‘TIME TO STAND UP AGAINST INJUSTICE IS ALWAYS RIGHT'

‘TIME TO STAND UP AGAINST INJUSTICE IS ALWAYS RIGHT’

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Bhonsle seems to be the third in your trilogy on isolation. How do you evaluate your work in Aligarh, Gali Guleiyan and Bhonsle?

I think with Bhonsle, I have unknowingly completed my trilogy on loneliness, or aloneness if we may call it that. All three films had different levels of challenge.

I have grown so much as an actor just by preparing for these three films about desolation.

They were thematically similar, but each was a very different character, so no fixed yardstick could be used to play the three characters.

I enjoyed working with the three talented directors (Hansal Mehta in Aligarh, Dipesh Jain in Gali Guleiyan and Devashish Makhija in Bhonsle) and their writers.

Today, I feel happy about my trilogy.

I feel I have reason to celebrate my skills as an actor after doing these three films.

‘How far would I go to fight for what I believe in?’ ‘If push comes to shove, I’d go a very long way.’

Just before he got his big break with Satya, did you know Manoj Bajpayee was “financially and emotionally completely broke.”

“I did Bandit Queen and then sat at home doing nothing,” Manoj tells Subhash K Jha.

Bhonsle seems to be the third in your trilogy on isolation. How do you evaluate your work in Aligarh, Gali Guleiyan and Bhonsle?

I think with Bhonsle, I have unknowingly completed my trilogy on loneliness, or aloneness if we may call it that. All three films had different levels of challenge.

I have grown so much as an actor just by preparing for these three films about desolation.