New Delhi: You could say actor Jackie Shroff's abuses behind the scenes of a polio eradication advertisement by Government of India is nothing short of 'Rangeela'. The actor was the butt of jokes on Twitter all day on Tuesday after the ad went viral.
A volley of hilarious abuses was hurled by the actor who just couldn't get the chaste script right. As the cameraman soon learnt, whatever you do, do not question his Hindi.
The behind-the-scenes footage was from a 1998 pulse polio ad. After it was posted on Twitter, it soon became the hot topic of discussion for people fascinated by Shroff's vocabulary of Hindi cuss words.
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