An apology has been extended to the media by the ‘3 Idiots’ producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, for having told a reporter to ‘shut up’, while reacting to a question whether the 70 percent of the story of the recently-released film was based on Chetan Bhagat’s book “Five Point Someone,” as claimed by the writer.

Chopra apparently lost his cool when a scribe asked him about Bhagat’s claims that the film has been lifted from his book. A furious Chopra shouted at the journalist and wanted to know whether he had seen the movie and read the book.

When the scribe responded that he had seen ‘3 Idiots’, but had not read “Five Point Someone”, Chopra got angry and started shouting: “Then you shut up. When you have not read the book, then how can you say that the movie is 70 percent of the book?”

With Chopra’s reaction evoking the fury of the reporters, who demanded an apology from him, the filmmaker apologized on Saturday, saying: “I really think I'm silly; I was provoked. But I shouldn't have done this. I saw myself on TV later, and saw how I was shouting 'Shut up! Shut up!' like an animal. I told myself - 'what nonsensical behaviour'.”

Chopra also said that he did not want to meet Bhagat ever again because “it's all being done with very bad intention.”