MUMBAI : Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan is on the lookout for the person who first ate a bat, going by his social media post.

Kartik took to Instagram and shared a selfie. In the picture, the actor is seen sporting a Batman T-shirt and pulling off a designer scowl at the camera.

"Jao pehle use dhoond ke lao… Jisne pehla Bat khaya (First go and look for the person who ate a bat)," Kartik wrote as caption, taking off from Amitabh Bachchan's famous dialogue in the superhit film, "Deewar".

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His allusion of course is to the belief that the coronavirus spread from bats to humans, and was transmitted into a human who must have eaten a bat that was infect with the virus.

On the film front, Kartik will next be seen in "Dostana 2" and "Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2".

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