Surat, February 21: Media persons were allegedly manhandled by private security guards during a press meet of Deepika Padukone and Farhan Akhtar starer ‘Karthik Calling Karthik’ (KCK) at a cinema theatre here today, police said.
The incident took place when Padukone, along with co-star Farhan Akhtar arrived to address the press conference at Rajhans Cinema theatre on Pal road, they said.
According to the police, initially there was a an altercation between the press photographers and organisers regrading entry into the room where the press conference was to be held.
The altercation grew into a scuffle and some photographers, wanting to click pictures of the Bollywood stars were pushed and manhandled by private security guards of the organisers, they said.
Following the incident media persons boycotted the press meet and shouted slogans against the organisers.
–Agencies