NANA PATEKAR –
Film Actor/Director
Vishwanath
"Nana" Patekar- (born 1 January 1951) in Murud-Janjira
in Raigad District, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar (a painter)
and his wife Sanjanabai Patekar.
He is an alumnus
of the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art,
Mumbai.
He acted in
movies such as Gaman
(1978), Mohre
(1987) and Salaam Bombay! (1988) and was noticed by
the mainstream Bollywood industry for his portrayal of the villain
in the 1989 film, Parinda, for which he won his first National Film Award for Best
Supporting Actor. He was also awarded the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
for the role. He won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar.
He
turned director with his movie Prahaar: The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit.
He has an honorary Captain's rank from Indian Army. He underwent training for
his role as an Army officer in Prahaar and was thus awarded the rank.
He joined the Territorial Army in the early 1990s. He
also took up the sport of rifle shooting and qualified for the G.V. Mavlankar
Shooting Championship.
In
1994, he won the National Film Award for Best Actor
for his performance in Krantiveer (1994). He also won the Filmfare Award and the
Star Screen Awards in the best actor category.
Nana
portrayed the character of a ghost in the children's film Abhay (The Fearless) which won two awards
at the 42nd National Film Festival held in 1994.
Patekar
has played many types of roles. He has played the occasional villain but been a
hero in most of his films. He played a truant, gambling son in Krantiveer
(1994), a wife beater in Agni Sakshi (1996), a deaf father to Manisha
Koirala in Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) and a
schizophrenic in Wajood (1998). In the movie Ab Tak
Chappan (2005) he plays a police officer who is a sharpshooter.
He shared the screen space with the legendary superstar Amitabh
Bachchan in Kohram where he played an undercover Indian Army intelligence
officer chasing Bachchan's incognito. Patekar has also done comic roles in Welcome (2007) in which he plays a powerful
crime lord who once desired to be an actor in films.
His
other films as an actor include Hu Tu Tu
and Bluff Master.
For his performance in Apaharan, he received the Filmfare Best Villain Award as well as the
Star Screen Award Best Villain.
He
has also acted in few Marathi movies and plays. He is known to donate
generously to the poor. Nana
Patekar starred in the Marathi film Deool, released on 4
November 2011.
He is going to be in Sangeeth Sivan's
next film, which is a remake of the Telugu film Athadu (2005)
and as the character Anjaneya Prasad (CBI officer), which was originally played
by Prakash Raj.
He turned
director with his movie Prahaar: The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit
and Dimple
Kapadia.
Awards & Recognition
- Nana Patekar has been announced Padma Shri award for his dedication in the field of films and arts in 2013 on the eve of 64th Republic Day.
- Nana Patekar is the only actor ever to win Filmfare Awards in the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Villain categories
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