If you’re Bihari, 40 — as actor Avinash Tiwary is — lemme hazard a guess. You’ll have an uncle called ‘Pappu Mama’! As does Avinash. Pappu Mama is also actor Manoj Bajpayee’s old friend. 

Except that while Avinash had dropped out of engineering college to take up acting, he’d hear stories about fellow-Bihari, Manoj, from Pappu Mama — “somewhere that seeded the thought of pursuing the profession” — they only first met a couple of years ago.