Nana Patekar pictured at The Vaccine War trailer launch.

Mumbai:

Fans have been expressing disappointment ever since they discovered about Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor’s absence from the third instalment of the favored comedy franchise Welcome. On Tuesday, Nana Patekar broke his silence on not doing Welcome 3 on the trailer launch of his movie ‘The Vaccine War’ in Mumbai.

“I am not a part of it, maybe they think hum bahut puraane ho gaye hai (I have become outdated),” Nana Patekar mentioned when he requested why he’s not part of Welcome 3.

Pointing at director Vivek Agnihotri, who shared the stage with the actor, he mentioned, “He doesn’t think I have become so old, so he cast me in his film. It’s that simple.”

With The Vaccine War, Nana Patekar is returning to the large display screen after 5 years after Kaala.

In The Vaccine War, he essays the function of Balram Bhargava, former director basic of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), who was actively concerned in coping with the pandemic and was a part of the nation’s Covid working group.

The movie will hit the theatres on September 28.

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