Pankaj Tripathi warmed everyone’s hearts when he recently appeared on The Kapil Sharma Show with his idol Manoj Bajpayee. The Sacred Games actor talked about Manoj with great admiration and got emotional recounting an old episode from their lives.
Host Kapil asked the two about an incident from many years ago when Pankaj stole Manoj’s slippers from a hotel. Manoj said that Pankaj told him this story when they were working together on Anurag Kashyap’s film Gangs of Wasseypur. Pankaj was working as a kitchen supervisor at Hotel Maurya many years ago when Manoj had arrived for a stay. Pankaj reminded him how Manoj had lost his slippers when he was staying at the hotel and told him that he took them.
Pankaj said that was not how it happened and gave a cleared version of the story to the audience. “I got a call that Manoj ji is here. I used to do theatre back then so the kitchen staff knew it. I told them that whenever he orders anything from his room, I’ll be the one to take it. So I went there, met bhaiyya, said ‘Pranaam, even I am into theatre’, touched his feet and left the room. Next day he checked out and left for the airport. But he left a hawai chappal behind. The housekeeping supervisor said ‘Are! Your Manoj bhai is gone but he left his chappal here’. I said don’t submit it, give it to me,” he said as the audience broke into laughter.
“Kyun? Eklavya ki tarah agar main inke khadau mein apna paer daal lu (Why? If like Eklavya I, too, could put my feet in his slipper)…” Pankaj said but his voice broke as he got emotional. He tilted his head back to hide his tears. Everyone in the audience applauded him and his love for Manoj, who is seen giving a him a hug in the next clip. The audience then gives the two a standing ovation.
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