India, Feb. 8 -- Amol Palekar recently attended the Jaipur Literature Festival 2025, where he recalled an incident of slapping his co-star Smita Patil without her consent during the filming of Shyam Benegal's film Bhumika. The actor revealed that he apologised to Smita after the scene.

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When asked whether his theatre background influenced the moment when he slapped Smita in the take, Amol partially agreed and explained that he does not believe in performing unrehearsed scenes and prefers to communicate everything with his co-star.

He then recounted, "During the making of Bhumika, we were shooting a crucial scene, but Shyam was not satisfied with the...