Actors Manoj Bajpayee and Shah Rukh Khan both started their acting journeys in the same group in Delhi. However, as their careers went ahead, they took distinct paths in cinema. While Shah Rukh became one of the biggest stars in Indian cinema, Manoj focused on parallel cinema and unconventional characters. He mentioned during a recent chat that their worlds have become so different now that they rarely cross paths.
Manoj previously shared an incident from their days in Delhi, recalling how they once went to a club together, but Manoj was denied entry due to improper footwear.
During an interview with Jist, when asked if he meets Shah Rukh Khan now, Manoj said, “Milna to nahi hota. Do alag alag duniya ke log hum ho chuke hai. To humare raastein nahi takrate. Uss samay bhi dosti aisi nahi thi, uska apna ek friend circle tha, mera apna ek friend circle tha. Ek hee group mein the hum log, jab ek hee group mein kaam karte ho to sabke saath jaan pehchaan hoti hai, sabke saath uthna baithna hota hai, sabke saath khana hota hai. (We don’t meet. We have become people from different worlds. So our paths don’t cross. Even at that time, our friendship wasn’t like that. He had his own friend circle, and I had mine. We were in the same group, and when you work in the same group, you get to know everyone, you sit and stand with everyone, you eat with everyone).”
This comes days after Manoj Bajpayee recalled his experience of sitting down with his 11-year-old daughter, Ava, to watch The Archies. “My daughter was watching The Archies. Most kids speak in English these days, so I was scolding her that tum Hindi bola karo. I asked her, ‘how you liking it?’ She was like, ‘Okay,’ and by then, I had watched it for 50 minutes. Archies is not a part of my growing-up years. My growing-up years included Motu Patlu and Ram Balram. I might have read maybe just one book of Archies, but I remember Veronica and Betty,” Manoj told Zoom in an interview.
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