Mohit Raina’s favourite cop character is one played by Manoj Bajpayee – find out more

Mohit Raina is currently making the right noises for his performance in Bhaukaal 2. The web series, which released on January 20, 2022, sees him in the role of a cop from Uttar Pradesh, Navniet Sereka. The actor now mentioned who his favourite cop character is and it involves Manoj Bajpayee.

Mohit loves Manoj’s cop character from Shool. Inspector Samar Pratap Singh (Manoj) was a cop posted in Bihar.

“I really liked Manoj Bajpayee in Shool. His performance in that character was phenomenal,” Mohit said at a recent media interaction for Bhaukaal 2.

While Manoj plays the role of Inspector Samar, Sayaji Shinde was seen in the role of Bacchu Yadav. The latter is a character loosely inspired by politician-turned-criminal Mohammad Shahabuddin. The movie also featured Raveena Tandon as the female lead. She played the role of Inspector Samar’s wife.

The film also won a National Award for the Best Hindi Feature Film in 1999. Shool, directed by Eeshwar Nivas, also happened to have names like Ram Gopal Varma and Anurag Kashyap associated with it. While RGV worked on the screenplay of the movie, Anurag wrote the dialogues for the film.

Bhaukaal, on the other hand, is a series which is streaming on MX Player. It deals with DSP (then SSP) Navniet Sekera’s term in Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh).

While the first season showed how Sekera dealt with the criminal called Shaukeen (played by Abhimanyu Singh), the second season sees him deal with the Dedha brothers. Siddhanth Kapoor played the role of Chintu Dedha while Pradeep Nagar plays the role of Pintu Dedha.

Bhaukaal as a franchise also features Bidita Bag, Rashmi Rajput and Sunny Hinduja in pivotal roles. Unfortunately, Sunny’s role was cut short in the first season itself.

There is currently no update whether the audiences will get to see the third season of Bhaukaal. It also remains to be seen which actors get a part in the series if it does go on floors.