Manoj Bajpayee
Film Year Role Notes
Drohkaal 1994 Anand Special appearance
Bandit Queen 1994 Dacoit Man Singh
Kalakaar 1994 N/A Television serial
Swabhimaan 1995 Sunil Television serial
Dastak 1996 Avinash Banerjee
Sanshodhan 1996 Bhanwar
Tamanna 1997 Salim
Daud 1997 Pushkar
Satya 1998 Bhiku Mahatre National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor
Prema Katha 1999 Sankaram Telugu film
Kaun 1999 Sameer A. Purnavale
Shool 1999 Inspector Samar Pratap Singh Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor Nominated- Filmfare Award for Best Actor
Fiza 2000 Murad Khan Special appearance
Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar 2000 Ram Saran Pandey
Ghaath 2000 Krishna Patil
Zubeidaa 2001 Maharaja Vijayendra Singh
Aks 2001 Raghavan Ghatge Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Villain
Road 2002 Babu Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Villain
Pinjar 2003 Rashid National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special Mention
LOC Kargil 2003 Yogendra Singh Yadav Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor
Filmography
Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also credited as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. He is the recipient of two National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards. In 2019, he was given India's fourth-highest civilian honor Padma Shri for his contributions to art. Born in Belwa, a small village in Narkatiaganj, Bihar, Bajpayee aspired to become an actor since childhood. He relocated to Delhi at the age of seventeen, and applied for the National School of Drama, only to be rejected four times. He continued to do theatre while studying in college. Bajpayee made his feature film debut with a one-minute role in Drohkaal (1994), and a minor role of a dacoit in Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen (1994). After a few unnoticed roles, he played the gangster Bhiku Mhatre in Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 crime drama Satya, which proved to be a breakthrough. Bajpayee received the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for the film. He then acted in films such as Kaun (1999) and Shool (1999). For the latter, he won his second Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. Bajpayee further played a prince with two wives in Zubeidaa (2001), a serial killer in Aks (2001) and a hitchhiker-turned-psychopath killer in Road (2002).