Nana Patekar whacks fan who approached him for a selfie, has him dragged away by scruff of neck in viral video. Watch

“Poor kid,” one person wrote in response to the video on Reddit. “That was too hard,” wrote another person. “Galat baat (that was wrong),” wrote a third person on X. A few days ago, the actor had shared pictures on Instagram announcing the start of production on the film Journey, director Anil Sharma’s follow-up to his smash hit Gadar 2. Journey will also star Utkarsh Sharma.

After the video went viral, Nana Patekar issued an apology and called the incident a “misunderstanding.” He issued a clarification on social media and said, “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.”

Nana Patekar was last seen in the film The Vaccine War, director Vivek Agnihotri’s follow-up to his smash hit The Kashmir Files. The film tanked at the box office. It marked the actor’s first theatrical release since 2018, when he appeared as a villain in the Rajinikanth-starrer Kaala. He then starred in a couple of streaming releases, one of which co-starred Taapsee Pannu. The actor’s career derailed after he was accused of sexual misconduct by Tanushree Dutta. An FIR was filed against him in 2018; but the investigation ended a year later after the Oshiwara police suggested that complaints against him could have been malicious in intent.

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