Nana Patekar (Marathi: नाना पाटेकर) (born 1 January 1951 as Vishwanath Patekar) is a highly acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker.
Born Vishwanath Patekar
January 1, 1951 (1951-01-01) (age 58)
Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, India
Occupation Actor, Filmmaker
Years active 1978 – present
Spouse(s) Neelakanti Patekar
Biography
Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dankar Patekar (a painter) and his wife Sangana Patekar. He is an alumnus of the Sir J. J. institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai. During his college years he was active in inter collegiate dramatics. After graduating he has starred in a number of Bollywood movies with some of the most prominent film directors of Bollywood. He is married to Neelakanti and they have a son Malhar.
Career
Nana Patekar is said to have a unique acting style. He is famous for his brash style of delivering his dialogues and his way of speaking reflects his deliverance of the lines. It is widely rumoured that he ad libs all of his lines.[citation needed] He is known to give generously to the poor.[citation needed] He is also a sketch artist with his sketches having sometimes helped the Mumbai Police to track criminals.[citation needed]
While he acted in movies such as Mohre (1987) and Salaam Bombay! (1988), he was noticed by the mainstream Bollywood industry and audience for his portrayal of the villain in the 1989 film, Parinda. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the role. He also won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar.
He is very well known for his role in the movie Ab Tak Chappan (2005) in which he plays a police officer whose main task is to rid the streets of underworld dons. 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.
Patekar has experimented with his roles when it comes to films. He has played the occasional villain but has played 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 and dumb father to his then off-screen lover Manisha Koirala in Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) and a schizophrenic in Wajood (1998). At times during his career, it was noted that he was an epitome of the “angry young man” role and that he was well suited for such roles and would carry it on from Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun Chakraborty. Yet, he was also perfect for some of the villainous roles that he has done. Patekar has also done Comic roles in the recent blockbuster Welcome (2007) in which he plays a powerful crime lord who once desired to be an actor in films.
He turned director with his movie Prahaar: The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit. His other films as an actor include Hu Tu Tu and Bluff Master. He once again gave a good performance in Apaharan, for which he received the Filmfare Best Villain Award as well as the Star Screen Award Best Villain. 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.
Patekar has also done some playback singing in the films Yeshwant (1997), Wajood (1998) and Aanch (2003).
Awards
1990: Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, Parinda
1990: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, Parinda
1992: Filmfare Best Villain Award, Angaar
1995: Filmfare Best Actor Award, Krantiveer
1995: Star Screen Award Best Actor, Krantiveer
1995: National Film Award for Best Actor, Krantiveer
1997: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor, Agni Sakshi
2004: BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Ab Tak Chhappan[1]
2006: Filmfare Best Villain Award, Apaharan
2006: Star Screen Award Best Villain, Apaharan
Patekar is the only actor ever to win Filmfare Awards in the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Villain categories.
Filmography
Actor
Gaman (1978) … Vasu
Ankush (1986) … Ravindra Kelkar ‘Ravi’
Pratighaat (1987) … Ex-Constable Karamveer
Salaam Bombay (1988) … Baba
The Jungle Book (Hindi) (1990s)… Shere Khan (voice)
Parinda (1990) … Vasant Mandre
Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen (1990) … Natwarlal aka Dhrushtadyumna padmanabh Prajapati Neelkant Dhumketu Barish Kar
Prahaar: The Final Attack (1991) … Major Chauhan
Diksha (1991) … Koga Pandit
Tirangaa (1992) … Shivajirao Wagle
Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992) … Jai
Angaar (1992) … Majid Khan
Krantiveer (1994) … Pratap Narayan Tilak
Hum Dono (1995) … Vishal Saigal
Agni Sakshi (1996) … vvVishwanath
Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) … Joseph Braganza
Ghulam-E-Musthafa (1997) … Ghulam -E- Musthafa
Yeshwant (1997) … Yeshwant Lohar
Yugpurush: A Man Who Comes Just Once in a Way (1998) … Anirudh
Wajood (1998) … Malhar Gopaldas Agnihotri/Col. Latti
Hu Tu Tu (1999) … Bhau
Kohram: The Explosion (1999) … Maj. Ajit Arya
Gang (2000) … Abdul
Tarkieb (2000) … CBI Inspector Jasraj Patel
Vadh (2002) … Dr. Arjun Singh
Shakti – The Power (2002) … Narasimha
Bhoot (2003) … Liyaqat Qureshi
Darna Mana Hai (2003) … John Rodrigues
Aanch (2003)
Ab Tak Chhappan (2004) … Inspector Sadhu Agashe
Apaharan (2005) … Tabrez Alam
Pak Pak Pakak (2005)…(Bhutya)(Marathi film)
Bluff Master (2005) … Chandru Parekh
Taxi Number 9211 (2006) … Raghav Shastri
Hattrick (2007) … Doctor
Dus Kahaniyaan (2007) … Man in the bus
Welcome (2007)… Don Uday Shetty
Yatra (film) (2007) … Dasrath Joglekar
Saamna (2006) (announced) … Guru
The Pool (2007)
Bommalattam(2007) (Tamil)
Cinema (2007) (In production)
Ek – The Power of One (2008) … CBI Officer Krish Prasad
It’s My Life …
Bommalattam
Paathshala 
