It seems to be a good year for Manoj Bajpayee as the two time National Award winning actor has a series of interesting projects coming up. After working with renowned filmmakers like Neeraj Pandey for Aiyaary, Tabrez Noorani for Love Sonia, and LA filmmaker Dipesh Jain for In the Shadows, the actor has added one more well-known name to his list of collaborators--Director Ahmed Khan for his much talked project Baaghi 2.

Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Baaghi 2 will be Manoj Bajpayee’s first film with the Producer- Director duo and will showcase the actor in an extremely interesting role. According to sources, Manoj will be playing a strong role in the film and will be seen in a negative avatar. Manoj apparently really liked the script, and due to his great relationship with the casting director Mukesh Chhabra and the director Ahmed Khan, he readily agreed to it. While Ahmed had choreographed Manoj in Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya, this will be the first time that Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani share screen space with versatile actor.

The shooting of Baaghi 2 has already kick started and Manoj will be starting his part very soon. The film is expected to release sometime in the next year.