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Headline: Dev Patel broke his hand shooting directorial debut Monkey Man

Caption: In Monkey Man, which he co-wrote, co-produced and directed, the Slumdog Millionaire actor plays Kid, an underground Mumbai fighter who exacts revenge on a group of corrupt leaders. After receiving a standing ovation at the film's premiere at SXSW festival on Monday, Patel sat down for a Q&A and revealed he broke his hand on the second day of filming. "I was thinking, here we go again, production is going to go down. I was on the Internet because I couldn't wear a cast for long because we didn't have the budget to paint it out," he said...

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