Manoj Bajpayee last visited Croisette in 2012 when the actor's two-part period gangster thriller Gangs of Wasseypur premiered in Director's Fortnight. Bajpayee, two times National Award winner, marked his attendance on the sidelines of the 71st Cannes Film Festival for the first-look launch of Devashish Makhija’s Bhonsle. Marking his 2nd film as a producer with Bhonsle, the actor is in Cannes to explore sales and marketing prospect. The film also has the makings of another milestone in Bajpayee’s much-feted screen acting career.
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Bhonsle was born four-and-a-half years ago and until December 2017 Manoj Bajpayee pitched the idea to makers in the inudtsyr; looking for right producers who could understand the importance of the film. Eventually, Manoj Bajpayee got Sandeep Kapoor and Abhay Singh on board with whom he had great experience working on previous projects.
After Bhonsle’s first look was unveiled in Cannes it instantly created a stir amongst the prospective buyers. Manoj's look in the film was so unrecognizable that it impressed everyone around he received a lot of appreciation for his new avatar in the film from the people present during the launch. The first look of the film got such a huge response that it became the talking point during the post event party.
The upcoming film hinges principally on an “undefined relationship” that develops between a retired, terminally ill policeman “who is running away from his loneliness” and a migrant woman who comes to live in his neighbourhood and faces grave threats to her well-being.
The film is in the final stages of post-production and it’s scheduled to release in 2019. Makers of Bhonsle plan to send their film as an entry to top notch international film festivals, before its release as it has a huge potential to make it big in the film festival arena.
