Nana Patekar breaks silence on slapping a boy in viral video: 'This happened by mistake…'

Veteran actor Nana Patekar garnered headlines yesterday after the clip of him slapping a boy, who was trying to take a selfie with him on sets of his film, went viral on social media. The Vaccine War star received flak from netizens as they him ‘rude’.

Now, the actor has released a video on social media and clarified about the shocking incident. “A video is going viral in which I have hit a boy. Though this sequence is a part of our film, we had one rehearsal… We were scheduled to have a second rehearsal. The director told me to begin. We were about to begin when the boy in the video came in. I didn’t know who he was, I thought he was one of our crew so I slapped him as per the scene and I told him to leave,” said Patekar.

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He continued, “Later, I came to know that he was not a part of the crew. So, I was going to call him back but he ran away. Maybe his friend shot the video. I have never said no to anybody for a photo. I don’t do this…This happened by mistake…If there is some misunderstanding, please forgive me…I will never do anything like this…”

As per India Today, Anil Sharma also clarified about the clip and revealed it was a part of the film. “I have just come to know about this news. I was watching the same video just now. Nana has not hit anyone, rather that is a shot from my film. We were filming it on the road in the middle of Banaras, where a boy who comes near Nana has to be hit on the head. Shooting was going on and Nana also hit him,” said the Gadar 2 helmer.