Train Your Brain to Face the Life
Outlook Money|July 2021
Leading a no-frills life saves him both from financial downturns and professional setbacks
Lachmi Deb Roy
Train Your Brain to Face the Life

Corona or no corona, I lead a very middle-class life and that’s the way it has always been and I feel it is a wise thing to do.

Goli maar bheje mein… Bheja shor karta hain…

The brain is a bother indeed. It doesn’t let one forget the darkest of hours and the deepest of troughs in life. Train the gun at the brain. Let silence prevail. This simple solution blends so seamlessly with the most complex philosophy when it comes to one of the finest actors of this genre.

Paradox. That’s possibly what differentiates Manoj Bajpayee from most actors. The common man with a common voice and a common demeanour made a difference with an uncommon performance every time he stepped into the shoes of a character succinctly different from the last one that he portrayed on the screen.

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