Nana Patekar issues apology with folded hands after video of slapping a fan emerges, calls it a ‘misunderstanding’: ‘Ye galti se hogaya’

“The video which is circulating on social media has been misinterpreted by many. What actually happened was a misunderstanding during the rehearsal of a shot from my upcoming film ‘Journey’,” the action captioned the video.

In the apology video, Nana explained the sequence of events and said the incident happened in Varanasi. “There is a video that’s going viral, where I am seen hitting a boy. It is a sequence from our film. We had to do a rehearsal where, as part of our scene, a man asks me, ‘Aey budhau topi bechni hai kya? because I am wearing a hat. So, he comes, I hit him and tell him to not misbehave and then he runs.

“We had done one rehearsal, we had to do one more. We were about to begin when the boy in the video came inside and I didn’t know who he was, I thought he was our guy. So I hit him as per the scene and told him that he should not misbehave but then I realised he was not our guy. By the time I started calling him back, he ran away,” he said in the video.

The veteran actor then folded his hands and apologised for his behaviour and said he is ready to apologise to the man in question who was hit by him. “I have never refused anyone for a picture. The ghat is always so crowded, and this scene was being shot in the market. Ye galti se hogaya, humko malum nahi woh kaha se aaya (This happened by mistake, I didn’t know where he came from).

“If there is some misunderstanding, please forgive me. I never hit anyone and I have never done something like this. People of Kaashi and everyone else love me a lot, I would never do something like this. We searched for the boy a lot, because for no fault of his he got hit but we couldn’t find him,” he added.

Hours after the video went viral, filmmaker Anil Sharma spoke to Aaj Tak and said that the crowd that had gathered around to watch the shoot recorded the rehearsal on their phone, which out of context of the film, was being misinterpreted by people. “But the crowd gathered there recorded it on their mobile cameras and then leaked the shot of the film. Now, Nana is being projected as a negative and rude actor on social media, which is completely wrong,” the Gadar 2 director had said in defense of Nana Patekar.

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