Nana Patekar Boolywood Actor And Fim Maker

Nana Patekar is a highly acclaimed Indian actor, filmmaker, and writer known for his remarkable work in Bollywood. Born on January 1, 1951, in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, he is celebrated for his versatile performances, often portraying intense and realistic characters.

Actor and filmmaker Vishwanath Patekar (born January 1, 1951), also known as Nana Patekar, is a former Indian Territorial Army officer who primarily works in Hindi and Marathi films. Three National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, and two Filmfare Awards Marathi have all been given to Patekar, who is widely considered to be one of the best and most significant actors in Indian cinema. For his contributions to the arts and film, Nana received the Padma Shri award in 2013.

Patekar acted in a few Marathi and Bollywood films after making his Bollywood debut in the drama Gaman in 1978. His work in the criminal drama Parinda (1989) earned him the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor, after his role in the Academy Award-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988). After that, he directed his first film, Prahaar: The Final Attack (1991).

Following that, Patekar starred in and won praise from critics for his roles in a number of commercially successful 1990s films, such as Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992), Angaar (1992), in which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Villain; Tirangaa (1993); and Krantiveer (1994), in which he won both the National Film Award for Best Actor and the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) and Agni Sakshi (1996), for which he received his second National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, brought him even more praise.

He was praised for his roles in Shakti: The Power (2002), Ab Tak Chhappan (2004), Apaharan (2005) (which won him his second Filmfare Award for Best Villain), and Taxi No. 9211 (2006) in the early 2000s. In the comedy Welcome (2007) and its follow-up Welcome Back (2015), Patekar played the kindhearted gangster Uday Shetty. In the political thriller Raajneeti (2010), he played a politician. He played a retired stage actor in the critically and financially successful Marathi film Natsamrat, which came out in 2016. For his role in the movie, he was given the Filmfare Award for Best Actor (Marathi).

Early life:

Born into a Marathi family in Murud-Janjira, in what is now Raigad District, Maharashtra, Nana Patekar was born Vishwanath Patekar. He attended the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai and graduated.

Career Of Nana Patekar:

Early character roles (1978-1987)

After making his screen debut in Gaman (1978), Patekar went on to play a number of minor parts in Marathi films. He played Nathuram Godse in Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986), a British television series. He also starred in important films, including Sagar Sangam (1988), Mohre (1987), Trishagni (1988), Pratighaat (1987), Andha Yudh (1987), Aaj Ki Awaz (1984), and Ankush (1986). For his role in Andha Yudh, he received his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards.

Acclaimed actor (1988-2006)

He received a lot of recognition for his role in Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! (1988) around this time. His performance as a criminal boss in the crime drama Parinda (1989) won him both his first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor and his first National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also gained a great deal of critical praise for this role.

After that, he became a director for his 1991 film Prahaar: The Final Attack, in which he costarred with Madhuri Dixit and received training for his role as an Indian Army officer. His performance in Angaar (1992) won him his first Best Villain Filmfare Award. His roles in the romantic comedy Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992) with Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, and Amrita Singh, as well as Tirangaa (1993) with industry veteran Raaj Kumar, got him two consecutive nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. He won the Screen Award for Best Actor, the Filmfare Award for Best Actor, and the National Film Award for Best Actor for his role as a truant, gambling son in Krantiveer (1994).

Patekar played a ghost in the 1994 children’s movie Abhay. He then costarred in Hum Dono (1995) with Rishi Kapoor. Playing a deaf father to Manisha Koirala in Khamoshi: The Musical (1996), a sadist husband in Agni Sakshi (1996), which earned him his second National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, a gangster in Ghulam-E-Mustafa (1997), honest but unconventional police officer in Yeshwant (1997), and a schizophrenic in Wajood (1998), he received two nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. In Kohram (1999), he costarred with Amitabh Bachchan as an Indian Army intelligence officer on the run who was trying to track Bachchan down in secret. His other noteworthy films from this decade were Hu Tu Tu (1999) and Yugpurush (1998).

In the criminal drama movie Tarkieb (2000), he worked with Aditya Pancholi. Following a year-long break, he made a comeback to acting in Shakti: The Power (2002), when he portrayed a violent father, earning him a second nomination for the Best Villain Filmfare Award. He portrayed an encounter specialist police officer in the 2004 film Ab Tak Chhappan. He won both the Screen Award for Best Villain and his second Filmfare Award for Best Villain for his role in Apaharan (2005). In the 2006 film Taxi No. 9211, he portrayed a cab driver.

Established career (2007-2018)

For Patekar, 2007 was a very prosperous year. His highly acclaimed portrayal in Welcome (2007), in which he played a formidable Mumbai criminal boss who previously aspired to be an actor, was one of his many comedic roles. Later, he starred in the 2009 movie Ek, directed by Sangeeth Sivan.

He played a school headmaster in Paathshaala (2010) to begin the decade. Additionally, he appeared in Prakash Jha’s multi-star political drama Raajneeti (2010), for which he received his fifth nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Filmfare Awards. He acted in the Marathi movie Deool and the critically praised Shagird in 2011. He played Joint Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria in Ram Gopal Verma’s 2013 film The Attacks of 26/11, which was based on the events of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks.He starred in Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero, another Marathi movie, in 2014. He returned to his roles in Ab Tak Chhappan 2 (the follow-up to Ab Tak Chhappan) and Welcome Back (the follow-up to Welcome), both of which he co-starred in with Anil Kapoor in 2015. Welcome Back was a commercial success, however Ab Tak Chhappan 2 was not.

In 2016, he played the role of Ganpatrao Appa Belwalkar in the critically and commercially successful film adaption of the drama Natsamrat. For Dr. Prakash Baba Amte: The Real Hero and Natsamrat, he won two Filmfare Awards for Best Marathi Actor. He provided Shere Khan’s voice in the 2016 Hindi adaptation of The Jungle Book. In the Rajnikanth-starring Tamil action movie Kaala (2018), he has a supporting part. The box office performance was mediocre.

Break from mainstream films (2019-present)

Following roles in Tadka (2022) and It’s My Life (2020), Patekar starred in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Vaccine War (2023), which chronicles the creation of Covaxin during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India commented, “Nana Patekar is outstanding, but the film reduces itself to being a government mouthpiece parading as a medical drama.” Despite the film’s commercial and critical failure, Patekar’s performance was highly praised.

Personal life:

At the age of 27, Patekar wed Neelkanti. When Nana was 28, his father passed away from a heart attack, and Patekar later lost his first son. He claimed in an interview that he was encouraged to see plays by his father, who enjoyed them. This is how his passion for performing began. His debut play was directed by Vijaya Mehta. Patekar resides in a one-bedroom apartment in Andheri, Mumbai.

After completing a three-year training program to get ready for the film Prahaar, Patekar was commissioned as a Captain in the Indian Territorial Army in 1990. He collaborated with General V. K. Singh, who was then a Colonel, and made a brief appearance. Patekar also served as a Major with the Maratha Light Infantry regiment, using the Bofors Howitzer Guns, during the Kargil War in 1999. In 2013, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Controversy:

Tanushree Dutta claimed Patekar sexually abused her on the Horn ‘Ok’ Pleassss film set in 2008. She complained to the “CINTAA” (Cine & TV Artists Association) in March 2008, but nothing was done at the time. In an interview in 2013 and again in 2018, this accusation was reiterated. While acknowledging that the primary allegation of sexual harassment was not even handled (in 2008), CINTAA apologized to Dutta in late 2018 and stated that they were unable to revisit the issue because it was over three years old.

The Me Too campaign made its debut in Bollywood in 2018 after Dutta reiterated her claims of sexual harassment by Patekar. She then filed a complaint with the Maharashtra Women Commission, requesting that the harassment claims she made against Patekar, Ganesh Acharya, producer Samee Siddiqui, director Rakesh Sarang, and a number of MNS party members be looked into. Dutta’s accusation late on Wednesday night led to the filing of a formal complaint against Patekar and three other people at the Oshiwara police station in the late hours of October 1, 2018. Patekar, director Rakesh Sarang, producer Samee Siddiqui, and choreographer Ganesh Acharya were all charged with molestation and obscenity under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The allegations of sexual harassment against Patekar were dropped in June 2019. Dutta’s complaint might have been retaliatory and spiteful, according to the B-Summary report from the Oshiwara police station in Mumbai. Dutta stated that her lawyers may request that the Bombay High Court reopen the case.

Philanthropy:

Patekar is well-known for leading a modest life and giving generously to charitable causes. Through the nonprofit organization Anubhuthi, he made a financial contribution to the reconstruction of the Bihar villages devastated by flooding. Upon receiving payment for his role in the film Paathshaala, he gave all of it to five separate nonprofit organizations. After receiving the Raj Kapoor award, which comes with a Rs 1,000,000 cash reward, he used the full sum to support drought relief efforts in Maharashtra. Additionally, he offered financial support to the families of farmers who killed themselves as a result of drought-related debt. In August 2015, he gave checks totaling Rs 15,000 to 62 farmer families in the Vidarbha region, and in September 2015, he gave checks totaling Rs 15,000 to 113 more families in the Latur and Osmanabad districts of Marathwada.

Together with fellow Marathi actor Makarand Anaspure, Patekar founded the Naam Foundation in September 2015 with the goal of helping farmers in Maharashtra who are suffering from drought.

Patekar raised money to aid drought victims in Maharashtra by using a Twitter campaign with the hashtag IcareIsupport.

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