'Maybe hum puraane ho gaye': Nana Patekar opens up on not being part of Akshay Kumar's Welcome To The Jungle
Nana Patekar, who played Uday Shetty in Welcome, opened up about not being part of Welcome To The Jungle which features Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Raveena Tandon.
Nana Patekar, who is busy promoting his upcoming film The Vaccine War, opened up on not being part of Welcome To The Jungle at the trailer launch event of Vivek Agnihotri’s film. Recently, the makers of Welcome announced the cast of Welcome 3 (Welcome To The Jungle) with a promo video.
While pointing at Vivek Agnihotri, Nana Patekar added, “He doesn’t think I have become so old, so he cast me in his film. It’s that simple.” During the trailer launch of The Vaccine War, when Vivek Agnihotri was asked if he still faces problems in getting the finances for his movie, the filmmaker replied, “Leave all that, you see any paper, news channel, everyone knows that we have made this film but whenever they talk about much-awaited films or the releases of this year, you see there won’t be The Vaccine War’s name even.”
He further added, “Today in the morning a trade analyst sent me a post that talked about the expected films of this month, and in that post it was written that another film that is coming on September 28 will be the next big hit and the name of our movie was not even mentioned like we don’t even exist. So when we don’t exist then obviously who will finance us.”
Helmed by Vivek Agnihotri, The Vaccine War stars Anupam Kher, Nana Patekar, Raima Sen, Pallavi Joshi, and Sapthami Gowda in key roles. The movie is bankrolled by Pallavi and tells the story of India’s ‘war’ to make its own vaccine to fight against Covid-19. The film is scheduled to hit the theatres on September 28 and will clash with Fukrey 3 starring Pulkit Samrat, Manjot Singh, Richa Chadha, Varun Sharma, and Pankaj Tripathi among others in key roles.