Priyadarshan defends his ‘poor education’ remark against Rajpal Yadav: ‘I’ve never seen such an innocent person in my life’ | Bollywood News
3 min readMumbaiUpdated: Mar 11, 2026 12:29 PM IST Priyadarshan has now clarified the remarks he made after Rajpal Yadav got arrested in the cheque bounce case last month. After Yadav seemingly took offense to his longtime collaborator’s remark that his arrest probably stemmed from his “poor education“, the filmmaker has now clarified his intent and explained what he meant when he used the word “education.” “Actually, I didn’t mean that. See, education is something we learn from the street and something we learn from the books too. Now I just meant that, maybe because education is also awareness,” he said. Priyadarshan’s justification comes days after Yadav responded to his claims after stepping out of Tihar Jail on bail. “This is completely wrong. Priyanji doesn’t know me. I am well educated guy,” he had said. “Maybe he comes from a village and the people in the village are so innocent, they don’t understand. You should be able to discriminate between right people and wrong people. That is education in a very broad way,” Priyadarshan further …
