India, Aug. 9 -- John Abraham recently had a heated exchange of words with a journalist at the trailer launch of his upcoming film, Nikkhil Advani's action film Vedaa. Now, on The Ranveer Show podcast, John explained why he lashed out at the reporter for asking him why he keeps doing same kind of movies and doesn't bring anything new to the table. (Also Read - John Abraham's Vedaa granted U/A certificate, trimmed by 9 minutes by CBFC: Report)

"I know that one person was planted there to rile me up, to antagonise me, to make me angry. And I want to say that they won and I lost because I got angry," John said. He claimed that the question was directed to him in order to "intentionally" provoke him.

John also recalled an instance from his ...