The barrage of offerings available online may be deceptive, but the growth of the web platform in India is still considered to be in a nascent stage. And even though it may be argued that the crop of Bollywood actors who forayed into the digital medium did so rather early, Manoj Bajpayee admits that several offers had come his way before he gave his nod to The Family Man.

"It was clutter-breaking," he says of the Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK (Raj & DK) offering that tells the tale of a middle-class man secretly working as an intelligence officer. The positive reactions to the Amazon Prime Video series was testimony that Bajpayee had expectedly packed enough punch into his subtle act as the protagonist. "This kind of a storyline has not been seen on any platform. Raj and DK have a sparkling style of writing, and I was sure they could craft it uniquely. Some stories are about a few [assorted] scenes, but, in this case, the writing, [as a whole], was fresh. I was lured," says the actor, adding that as is demanded of a finite series, each character was beautifully etched.