Matin Rey Tangu, the child actor in Tubelight who belongs to Arunachal Pradesh, was asked at a news conference on Tuesday if he was visiting India for the first time.

“Have you come to India for the first time?” a journalist is heard asking him in a video clip of the news conference that went viral on social media.

“What?” the child responds. “What?” he asks again.

Salman Khan, his co-star in the film that releases this Friday, steps in. Rolling his eyes, he tells Matin: “She is asking if this is your first time in India.”

Without batting an eyelid, the Class I student of an Itanagar school gives the journalist a quick lesson in national geography. “When I’m sitting in India, how can I come to India?” he asks.

The boy, who is fondly called Rey and Hantu at home, loves football and is a Messi fan. His father, Anupam Tangu, is the officer on special duty to Arunachal chief minister Pema Khandu.

Fotocorp picture shows Salman and Matin at  the news conference in Mumbai to promote Tubelight.