‘There are stories everywhere’: Manoj Bajpayee on the power of stories and the need for storytellers | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

‘There are stories everywhere’: Manoj Bajpayee on the power of stories and the need for storytellers | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Ishita Sengupta |New Delhi |Updated: October 13, 2019 1:42:06 pm

‘There are stories everywhere’: Manoj Bajpayee on the power of stories and the need for storytellers

Recently in New Delhi to inaugurate the Kathakar festival, a three-day event that celebrates various forms of storytelling, Manoj Bajpayee vouches for the omnipresence of stories.

Manoj Bajpayee is certain that all actors are inherent storytellers. (Source: Amazon Prime)

Manoj Bajpayee’s eight-year-old daughter has a curious habit of making up stories. In her latest imagining, she has just come back from London. Her friends in the new school have lapped it up. But there is one problem: although her mother features in it, she has carefully excluded her father. “She feels she will be caught,” he says, reasoning that his profession will give it away.