An Instagram page with the name of Pankaj Tripathi recently shared a collage of 16 pictures of Bollywood actors and captioned it "Naya Cinema". It featured the likes of Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpayee, Irrfan, Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and Rajkummar Rao among others. However, there was no female actress in the list. 

 

 

 

 

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A post shared by Pankaj Tripathi (@pankajtripathiii) on Sep 29, 2019 at 9:45pm PDT

This led to a news website reporting the post and slamming Pankaj for not incorporating any actress in his list of actors that form "naya cinema". However, it turns out, Pankaj is not on Instagram and it is a fake account which shared the collage of the 16 actors. When the actor learned about the same, he in turn took a jibe at the news website and tweeted, "Kya gairzimmedarana patrakarita hai yeh. Main Instagram par hu hi nahi aur farzi page se yeh tasveer utha ke kuch bhi likh de rahe hai aap log. Kripya apni chaanbeen karein. (What irresponsible journalism is this? I am not on Instagram. Taking picture from a fake account you are writing whatever you want. Please fact-check)."

, Instagram @CNNnews18 https://t.co/JEN7JqjHeG

— (@TripathiiPankaj) October 1, 2019

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Soon after the news website deleted their tweet and took the article down.

On the work front, Pankaj recently impressed everyone with his act as guruji in Sacred Games 2. Going ahead, he has Drive, Kargil Girl, Panga and Angrezi Medium in the pipeline. 

(Source: Twitter)