‘Anurag Kashyap has made too many enemies, broken his own hand in anger’, says Manoj Bajpayee: ‘I’m more practical than him’

In the interview with Bollywood Hungama, Bajpayee claimed that while he’s as angry as Kashyap, he’s also far more “practical.” “I’d say I’m far more practical than him. He’s also practical, but he loses it sometimes. The day he starts answering to trolls, I realize it’s that time when he’s losing his balance (laughs). But again, he comes back.”

Bajpayee revealed his mantra to keep calm: avoid responding to trolls. “Ignore them. They’re worthless. You have to understand,” said Bajpayee, adding, “There’s nothing bigger than looking out for work or heading out to work. If everybody does that, you’ll only have respect for the other person who’s working. The trolls don’t have respect for anybody. They might not have respect for their own brothers, sisters, and parents because they don’t have anything else to do. They’re only looking for faults in other people who have reached so far after really going through so much.” Bajpayee claimed Kashyap has “burnt” throughout his journey to reach where he has. “Anurag must have sacrificed so much,” said Bajpayee.

Last year, in on a Humans of Bombay podcast, Bajpayee had opened up on his rift with Kashyap. “There was a misunderstanding about one thing, and we didn’t talk about it. Now it has become so big on social media that sometimes when embarrassment occurs, things are exaggerated. We didn’t talk because I felt he wasn’t making films of my type, and he also felt that there was no need for Manoj Bajpayee right now because his career was going down. So, both of us were enjoying our lives separately, he didn’t need me, and I didn’t need him,” he said, revealing that after not talking to each other for years, their feud ended when Kashyap offered him the lead role in Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1.

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Kashyap is still awaiting the release of a bunch of his films, including his maiden directorial Paanch (2003) and more recently, Kennedy, which was supposed to release on ZEE5, but is still awaiting a go-ahead. He is currently busy promoting Nishanchi, his two-part action comedy which will mark the acting debut of Aishwarya Thackeray, the grandson of late Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray. Kashyap’s film Bandar, starring Bobby Deol, also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last weekend. Kashyap is also presenting Raam Reddy’s Jugnuma – The Fable, starring Bajpayee, which is releasing in cinemas this Friday on September 12.