Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpayee has becomes a proud father as his actress wife Shabana, known as Neha, gave birth to a baby girl in a private nursing home. The baby was born Feb 23 and Manoj is very happy and excited.
 
“They have named the baby Ava Nayla Bajpayee. They kept quiet about it because that is the way they wanted it. Manoj has always been a very private person about his personal life and everybody knows this. In fact, they shifted from a bigger hospital to a private nursing home in Santacruz to enjoy this moment with close family,” a source close to the actor told reporters.

“Manoj had come to Mumbai for the delivery and now he is back in Bhopal for the shoot of `Aarakshan`,” added the source. Source

In a year which has been laden with some high profile box office flops, case in point being KITES (Hrithik Roshan), VEER (Salman Khan) and RANN (Amitabh Bachchan), RAAJNEETI is one film which is turning out to be one of the biggest films of the season.

“Well, people had been telling me this for last few weeks and the feelers have been amazing. As an actor you do feel elated when something like this happens because you have lived through the film and hence have a hands-on idea of how it has shaped up actually. This is why I was not scared of any expectations because I knew that they would be met”, says Ajay in a confident tone.

One can trust him to say that. Earlier this year, his ATITHI TUM KAB KAOGE turned out to be a surprise success at the box office and though not many in the trade believed that it would do well in theaters, Ajay was always confident about its extended run on big screen as well as the medium of home video. Today in case of RAAJNEETI, whether it’s the plot, cast, music, buzz, hype, timing, promotion – just about everything seems to have fitted in quite well. More

Wake up you all Katrina Kaif fans. This is a big surprise. Imagine the reigning queen of Bollywood touching the feet of an actor. Well, this did happen recently when Katrina Kaif went out of her and touched the feet of well known actor Manoj Bajpayee. The reason – Katrina is bowled over by the acting talent of this genius actor and didn’t want to miss a chance to express her respect for him.

Manoj Bajpayee is making headlines again for his critical role in the recently released film RAAJNEETI. The actor is happy over the way critics and fans have reacted to his act in the film.

In the past too, Manoj Bajpayee has invited such gestures from his ladies. It is a well known fact that during the release of the film SATYA, actress Tabu had also touched Manoj Bajpayee’s feet for being the powerhouse of the acting talent. Source

RAAJNEETI has recorded by far the best opening of the year by collecting nearly 10.50 crore net on its first day. The collections are just huge in Mumbai, Delhi/UP, East Punjab, CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan with South being good but lower comparatively.

This is the second highest opening ever after 3 IDIOTS (12.98 crores where we need to remember 25th December was the opening day). RAAJNEETI is closely followed by KITES (10.04 cr) and HOUSEFULL (9 crores).The collections are the second highest first day total however with 30% lesser shows at multiplexes than films like KITES and HOUSEFULL which were the second and third biggest first day openers respectively before RAAJNEETI.

The film has simply surpassed all expectations and may be on its way to being the first big smash hit of 2010 in India. Prakash Jha rocks. Source

Manoj Bajpai got recognition in filmdom with Ram Gopal Varma’s “Satya”, but says he will never go back to his mentor.

“You will never see me doing a film with him (Varma) again. The wound that he has given can never be healed,” Manoj said.

Varma gave Manoj a role in “Satya” after watching him in Shekhar Kapur’s “Bandit Queen”. But the two never got along well. Manoj alleged that Varma always humiliated him during the making of “Satya”.

The final break came when Varma was casting for “Ramu Ki Aag” and met Manoj for Samba’s role. But it didn’t work out and the director said Manoj and he could never see eye to eye. The day after the meeting with Manoj, Varma signed Sushant Singh for Samba’s role. Full News