Basking
in
the
acclaim
he
got
for
sensitive
portrayal
of
a
gay
professor
in
Aligarh,
actor
Manoj
Bajpayee
will
now
be
seen
as
a
traffic
policeman
in
his
next
film,
a
project
for
which
he
had
to
bring
up
the
peculiar
traits
of
cops
for
his
role.
The
46-year-old
actor
says
most
of
the
constables
in
Mumbai
come
from
the
interiors
of
Maharashtra
and
he
had
to
take
special
attention
in
understanding
how
they
communicate
when
he
was
preparing
for
his
role
in
the
film,
Traffic.
"Most
of
the
Mumbai
traffic
cops
or
constables
come
from
the
interiors
of
Maharashtra.
That
part
I
had
to
bring
it
up.
They
are
not
Mumbaikars.
They
are
all
coming
from
Satara,
Marathwada,
from
the
interiors.
They
have
a
different
culture,
way
of
speaking,
communication
is
different," Bajpayee
told
reporters
on
the
sidelines
of
the
film's
trailer
launch.
The
Aligarh
star
says
he
was
observant
about
the
body
language
of
traffic
police
personnel
and
did
not
model
his
character
on
any
particular
officer.
"If
you're
living
in
Mumbai
and
if
you
keep
your
eyes
and
ears
open,
you
keep
meeting
these
guys.
As
an
actor
you
are
observant
all
the
time.
You
don't
have
to
go
looking
for
some
one
guy.
I
don't
do
it,
never
done
it."
The
drama-thriller
is
inspired
from
an
actual
event
that
happened
in
Chennai
where
a
doctor
couple
donated
organs
of
their
15-year-old
son
who
died
in
a
road
accident.
The
young
boy's
heart
was
transported
to
another
hospital
for
a
girl
who
required
heart
transplant.
The
road
journey,
which
would've
taken
close
to
45-minute,
was
completed
in
11
minute
as
the
police
cleared
the
way
and
gave
green
signal
for
the
ambulance
to
pass.
Traffic,
which
also
stars
Jimmy
Shergill,
Prosenjit
Chatterjee,
Parambrata
Chatterjee,
Divya
Dutta
and
Amol
Parashar,
is
scheduled
to
release
on
May
6.