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Manoj Bajpayee Guns for Action Hero Status in ‘Bhaiyya Ji’ (EXCLUSIVE)


Manoj Bajpayee, known as one of India's finest actors, is donning a mass market, action hero persona with 'Bhaiyya Ji.'

The genre Karki is referring to, which celebrates male-centric heroism and is replete with stylized action and heightened emotion, is something that India’s southern film industries churn out to large box office numbers with monotonous regularity. However, the genre is something Bollywood appeared to have lost the art of making successfully until southern Indian filmmaker Atlee brought it back to the industry with Shah Rukh Khan starrer “Jawan,” which became the biggest hit of 2023. Baypayee says that he has a problem with most Hindi-language commercial films because they are not rooted culturally, with them being set in urban locations, and “heroes don’t look like that they are coming from our society,” unlike their southern Indian counterparts.

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