Manoj Bajpayee says Tandav episode didn’t delay The Family Man 2: ‘Did you feel our series was censored?’

Manoj Bajpayee believes it’s a nice time to be within the content material area. The pandemic has modified the way in which India consumes its leisure, placing story within the highlight and making writers and administrators with imaginative and prescient its new kings. The 53-year-old actor, who has grow to be a darling of the viewers on the OTT area, spoke concerning the churning within the leisure area at a web based Adda hosted by the Indian Express on Thursday. He was in dialog with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group, and movie critic Shubhra Gupta.
Manoj spoke how the period of superstars could also be over as OTT ranges the enjoying subject. He known as the streaming a much more democratic medium the place expertise is flourishing. “The system that is based on Friday releases has lost out. You see their desperation and anxiety but they are also trying to tweak themselves to be a part of this new situation.”

Calling the large actors, the “real kings of box office”, Bajpayee added, “For us, it was always this situation. We were doing everything so that we can be part of such films. But they were the real kings of box office. They will take time to come to terms to this situation and start re-inventing themselves. I see that effort happening from that side also,” he added.
However, given the dynamics of Bollywood, Manoj stated he noticed nothing mistaken with stars taking a big chunk of the movie’s revenue. “If you ask me were stars right in taking 50-60 percent of profit share, I would say yes, because that is how producers and directors were casting. They were not taking Manoj Bajpayee randomly and making him a star. They were going to the stars who can give them numbers at the box office. And those films were star-centric, created around those stars to make profit. So if the main guy is taking that much of profit, I don’t see anything wrong there because it’s all a commercial preposition. We aren’t talking about cinema here. If we had to talk about cinema, we’ll mention Gangs of Wasseypur where we had so many actors, there’s a scriptwriter and a director with great vision, or Bhonsle or Gali Guleiyan. These films were written as cinema and the rest followed. But with commercial cinema, stars were supreme,” Bajpayee opined.
Bajpayee acquired lots of love for his current launch The Family Man season 2. The Raj and DK directed present was beforehand scheduled for April this 12 months. It was, nonetheless, delayed whilst Amazon Prime Video’s internet collection, Tandav, bought embroiled in an argument for allegedly hurting non secular sentiments. As a number of FIRs have been filed in opposition to the Saif Ali Khan collection, the makers and streaming service issued apologies.

Did Tandav’s destiny have an effect on The Family Man 2’s launch? “It is overstated,” Bajpayee stated. “The Family Man season 2 was complete and was ready for release when the Tandav episode happened. Did you ever feel in The Family Man that it is censored? If at all we were worried, it was about the protest that was coming from a different part of the country. But we were very confident that once people saw the show, they would understand that it is about them. Raj and DK and the writers put all the sides of debates in the script for people to decide. That’s a great way to put all the arguments in the script.”