This image has been collected from the source mentioned. The report has been independently written by our team at this news portal. : INSTAGRAM Today is Nana Patekar's 74th birthday.
Vishwanath Patekar, i.e. Nana Patekar is celebrating his birthday today on 1st January. The veteran actor was born on 1 January 1951 in Bombay. Nana Patekar is counted among the most experienced and brilliant actors of Indian cinema. Not only his acting talent, Nana is also famous for film making and script writing. Not only this, he has also been honored with three National Awards and four Filmfare Awards and in 2013, he was also honored with Padma Bhushan. Today on his birthday, let us tell you some interesting things related to him.
Birth of Nana Patekar
Nana Patekar was born in a Marathi family in the year 1951. Nana Patekar started his film career in a very difficult period and has been working since the young age of 13. Today, there are many wonderful and memorable films to his name in Hindi and Marathi films. Nana Patekar had told in Siddharth Kanan's podcast that initially he used to take only one meal a day and his earning was only Rs 35 per month and today he is worth crores. He started his career with a negative role in the film 'Gaman'.
Success from this film
However, he got success for the first time in 1986 when the audience liked him a lot in his hit film 'Ankush'. The audience fell in love with his signature style in the film. Talking about Nana Patekar's acclaimed films, he surprised everyone with his acting in films like Parinda, Krantiveer, Agni Sakshi, Tiranga, Khamoshi and Bhoot. Nana Patekar also received the National Award for Best Supporting Role in the film Agni Sakshi.
Played the role of police inspector in many films
Due to his dialogue delivery and angry expressions, he was seen many times in the role of a police inspector in films. There was a time when people used to copy the dialogues spoken by Nana. Similarly, he also played the role of Uday Shetty in the film Welcome in such a way that the audience could not forget it even today. Nana Patekar's brilliant acting in Shagird, Taxi No. 9211, Ab Tak Chhappan was greatly appreciated by the audience.
Took 3 years of training to fit into the role of Major
In 2016, Nana Patekar did a Marathi film Natsamrat, the audience still remembers his acting in this classic film. Nana Patekar has played the role of a retired person in this film starring Vikram Gokhale and Medha Manjekar. In 1990, Nana Patekar joined the Indian Territorial Army as Captain. He took three years of army training to fit the role of Major in his film Prahaar – The Final Attack. At that time he worked with General VK Singh.
Contribution to Kargil War
During the Kargil war in 1999, he left his acting career and contributed to the war with the Maratha Light Infantry Regiment. Recently, Nana Patekar's film Vanvas was released, directed by Anil Sharma.
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