Actor Manoj Bajpayee recently revealed that he once hid in a women's washroom because he was too shy around girls when he was a young man.
In one of his recent interviews, with his 'Dial 100' co-star Sakshi Tanwar, Bajpayee said that he always knew that the actress had it in her to succeed in the acting field.
He also said that he had been silently admiring her progress as an actor over the years.
For those unversed, Bajpayee was Sakshi's acting instructor when she was a college student in New Delhi. However, Bajpayee revealed he was always shy to visit a women's college.
"I felt very awkward about going to LSR. It was a girls college, and I am a very shy person. I would be extremely shy in front of girls. So I would ask a couple of girls to wait for me by the gate. One day, they didn't show up, so I went across the street and killed time at a Dhaba... One day, I entered a women's loo there. And while I was in there, a few girls came in and wouldn't leave. So I had to hide there for the coast to clear," he told journalist Puja Talwar.
Talking about Sakshi, he said, "I remember her from her college days. I remember telling her, 'You should take acting very seriously because you are so good.' And she made me so proud, from a distance. We've never kind of conversed on the phone when she landed from there till now, but I have been very, very proud of what she has made of herself. She's really proved me right."
'Dial 100' also stars senior actress Neena Gupta. It was released on August 6 on Zee5.
Earlier this year, Bajpayee appeared in the ZEE5 film 'Silence... Can You Hear It?' and then in Amazon Prime Video series 'The Family Man 2'.
He was also seen in 'Hungama Hai Kyon Barpa', from the Netflix anthology 'Ray'.
