actor Manoj Bajpayee talked about collaborating on a web series for The Family Man. He remembers Shabana the actor, his wife, believing it would be a TV show.
One of the few actors from the Hindi cinema industry, Manoj Bajpayee, agreed to star in a web series before the OTT boom that occurred during the pandemic. Since 2019, the actor has played Srikant Tiwari in The Family Man on Amazon Video. The third season of the show, which was created by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, is anticipated to start filming later this year.
The actor revealed that working on the web series was a bet that took five years when the filmmaker’s Raj and DK came to him with the premise and script. The actor made his acting debut with a small role in Govind Nihalani’s Drohkaal (1994). Manoj has experience working in film, and television, and has participated in a number of short films, but he had never before worked in a web series.
The actor said to Kamiya Jani that his wife, Shabana, assumed he would be working on a television show when he took the part. Manoj said, “Even The Family Man was a chance that I’ve taken,” in a joint interview with The Bombay Adventure X Sunday Brunch. At that time, my film career was going really nicely. Because OTT wasn’t all that popular, my wife assumed I was going to start a TV show.
“I used to get a lot of offers, and when I used to study OTT at that time, I found that there was a template — thriller, murder thriller, sex or abuses, which was available and performing well,” he continued. It wouldn’t be worth it if I didn’t find something else that was separate from all of this. By sheer luck, Mukesh Chhabra, the casting director, introduced me to Raj and DK. A 20-minute commentary was given.
Sharib Hashmi, Priyamani, Neeraj Madhav, Sunny Hinduja, and Shreya Dhanwanthary all appeared in the first season. Samantha Ruth Prabhu joins the show in the second season as Raji, an adversary. In June 2021, the second season premiered on Amazon Video. At the conclusion of the second season finale, the third season was alluded to. Manoj clarified that Raj and DK are still working on the manuscript. Varun Dhawan and Samantha, the co-creators are collaborating on the new Amazon Video series Citadel.
