Hansal Mehta Recalls Manoj Bajpayee's Mood Swings On The Sets Of His Film, Says 'He Was A Pain'
Hansal Mehta calls Manoj Bajpayee a pain to work with in 2000 film Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar. His bad behaviour on the sets and mood swings irked the ace filmmaker.
One of the finest actors in Bollywood today--who at the age of 54 is giving us fitness goals--Manoj Bajpayee is known for his humbleness and down-to-earth nature. However, do you know his bad behaviour on the sets of the 2000 film Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar once irked Scam 1992 fame, Hansal Mehta?
Hansal Mehta recalls working with Manoj Bajpayee
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Bajpayee's mood swings were a pain for Mehta
In an interview with Cinema Express, he opened up on working with him and said, "It¡¯s about the connection that you feel. Manoj has major mood swings. We made Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar in 2000, and he was a pain in that film."
Rummaging through my father¡¯s collection of memories. Here¡¯s a picture from 2000 with @BajpayeeManoj on sets of Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar. pic.twitter.com/OkkRmZS8gY
¡ª Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) June 6, 2021
He clarified that The Family Man actor is not a bad person but it was challenging to work with him
"At heart, he's a nice guy. He's not a bad person. You get that vibe. When we were working together, I used to get very irritated. I would ask, 'Manoj, why are you behaving like this?' That was the time when Manoj would take the character and just go," he said. "I don¡¯t know how he decided that the character should be irritable, but he thrust it on everyone. Everyone used to run away from him. Saurabh (Shukla) used to be like, ¡®I went to speak to him and he was mean. What¡¯s wrong with him?"
Despite this, Hansal Mehta worked with Manoj Bajpayee in 2016 movie Aligarh, which received widespread critical acclaim. The movie was based on the real life story of Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, a professor of Aligarh University.
Do you know Manoj wasn't the first choice for the movie? Mehta wanted Govinda to do that role. In an interview with Lallantop, Mehta said, "Sometimes when you think of an actor while writing a script, you get stuck on that actor. It has happened to me before when an actor refused to do a project that I had written keeping him in my mind. So, in that case I had to leave the story completely or recalibrate it and make it years later. This happened to me during Aligarh. When I sat with casting director Mukesh Chhabra for Aligarh, I told him, ¡®Yaar, let¡¯s talk to Govinda.¡¯ He told me let¡¯s see. I don¡¯t know what happened but that casting didn¡¯t happen. Then Mukesh told me to talk to Manoj Bajpayee."
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