It has been a busy four months for Manoj Bajpayee as he had two releases in Killer Soup and Silence 2: The Night Owl Bar Shootout, and shot for his maiden production Bhaiyya Ji. Amid this, the actor also served as the host for Secrets of the Buddha Relics, the third offering in Neeraj Pandey’s docu-series Secrets. In April, it claimed the top spot among shows on Discovery+. That is heartening for the actor, who says he felt like a relative newcomer on the project. “I had never anchored before. I started with the first season as a newcomer. Through the series, I learnt [more about] voice, speech and how they are essential to storytelling. I had attended those classes as a theatre actor. That education paid off during the three seasons of this show,” he says.

Neeraj Pandey