Early and personal life

Patekar was born in a Marathi family as Vishwanath Patekar on 1 January 1951 in Murud-Janjira in Raigad District, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar, a small textile printing businessman, and Sanjanabai Patekar, a housewife. He is an alumnus of the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai. Nana Patekar was married to Neelakanthi Patekar and they have a son Malhar Patekar. But their marriage life did not go well and it resulted in a divorce later on.

In September 2015, Nana Patekar established an organisation, Naam Foundation, with fellow Marathi actor Makarand Anaspure, which works to provide aid to farmers to overcome by drought conditions in Maharashtra, India.

Career

Patekar has played many types of roles. He has played the occasional villain but been a hero in most of his films.

Early 1970s and 1980s

He acted in movies such as Gaman (1978), notable role in Sujata Mehta-led Pratighaat (1987), 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.

1990s

He turned director with his movie Prahaar: The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit. He underwent training for his role as an Indian Army officer in Prahaar and was awarded honorary Captain's rank. He joined the Territorial Army in the early 1990s.

He took up the sport of rifle shooting and qualified for the G.V. Mavlankar Shooting Championship.

He won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar.

In 1994, he won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Krantiveer (1994). He 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.

2000s

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 Chhappan (2005) he plays a police officer who is an encounter specialist . He costarred with Amitabh Bachchan in Kohram, where he played an undercover Indian Army intelligence officer chasing Bachchan's incognito. Patekar has also done comic roles, such as in Welcome (2007), in which he plays a powerful crime lord in Dubai who once desired to be an actor in films.

His other films as an actor include Hu Tu Tu and Bluffmaster!. For his performance in Apaharan, he received the Filmfare Best Villain Award as well as the Star Screen Award Best Villain.

He has acted in a few Marathi movies and plays. He is known to donate generously to the poor.

2010s

Nana Patekar starred in the Marathi film Deool, released on 4 November 2011. He acted in Sangeeth Sivan's film EK, 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.

In 2014 Nana starred in another Marathi film, Dr. Prakash Baba Amte - The Real Hero, directed by Samrudhi Porey. Starring Sonali Kulkarni, it was based on a true story.

In 2015 he starred in a Bollywood film Ab Tak Chhappan 2, a sequel of Ab Tak Chhappan.

In the 2016 Nana starred as Ganpatrao 'Appa' Belwalkar in the film adaptation of the Drama 'Natsamrat' by V.V Shirwadkar

Singing career

Patekar did some playback singing in the films Yeshwant (1997), Wajood (1998) and Aanch (2003).

Movie direction

He turned director with Prahaar: The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit and Dimple Kapadia.

Awards and recognition

• Nana Patekar has been awarded 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.

Award	Film	Year	Status
National Film Award
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor	Parinda	1990	Won
National Film Award for Best Actor	Krantiveer	1995	Won
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor	Agni Sakshi	1997	Won
Filmfare Award
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award	Andha Yudh	1989	Nominated
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award	Parinda	1990	Won
Filmfare Best Villain Award	Angaar	1992	Won
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award	Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman	1993	Nominated
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award	Tirangaa	1994	Nominated
Filmfare Best Actor Award	Krantiveer	1995	Won
Filmfare Best Villain Award	Shakti: The Power	2003	Nominated
Filmfare Best Villain Award	Apaharan	2006	Won
Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award	Raajneeti	2011	Nominated
Star Screen Awards
Star Screen Award Best Actor	Krantiveer	1995	Won
Star Screen Award Best Villain	Apaharan	2006	Won
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Bengal Film Journalists' Association - Best Actor Award (Hindi)	Ab Tak Chhappan	2004	Won
Zee Cine Awards
Zee Cine Award for Best Actor (Marathi)	Natsamrat	2015	Won

Filmography

As director

Year	Film
1991	Prahaar: The Final Attack

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1978	Gaman	Vasu
1979	Sinhasan		Marathi film
1980	Bhalu		Marathi film
1982	Raghu Maina		Marathi film
1983	Savitri		Marathi film
1984	Aaj Ki Awaaz	Jagmohandas
1985	Gad Jejuri Jejuri		Marathi film
1986	Ankush	Ravindra Kelkar 'Ravi'
	Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy	Nathuram Godse
	Maaficha Sakshidar	Rajendra Jakkal	Marathi film based on Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders
	Phansi Ka Phanda	Raghvendra
1987	Sutradhar	Kumar
	Mohre	Abdul
	Andhaa Yudh	S.P. Suhas Dandekar
	Pratighaat	Ex-Constable Karamveer
1988	Trishagni
	Salaam Bombay!	Baba
1990s	Jungle Book Shōnen Mowgli (Hindi)	Shere Khan (Voice)
1990	Parinda	Anna Seth
	Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen	Natwarlal aka Dhrushtadyumna Padmanabh Prajapati Neelkant Dhumketu Barish Kar
1991	Prahaar: The Final Attack	Major Chauhan
	Disha	Vasant D. Mandre
	Diksha	Koga Pandit
1992	Tirangaa	Shivajirao Wagle
	Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman	Jai
	Angaar	Majid Khan
1994	Krantiveer	Pratap Narayan Tilak
	Abhay	Ghost
1995	Hum Dono	Vishal Saigal
1996	Agni Sakshi	Vishwanath
	Khamoshi: The Musical	Joseph Braganza
1997	Ghulam-E-Mustafa	Ghulam-E-Mustafa
	Yeshwant	Yeshwant Lohar
1998	Yugpurush: A Man Who Comes Just Once in a Way	Anirudh
	Wajood	Malhar Gopaldas Agnihotri/Col. Latti
1999	Hu Tu Tu	Bhau
	Kohram	Maj. Ajit Arya
2000	Gang	Abdul
	Tarkieb	CBI Inspector Jasraj Patel
2002	Vadh	Dr. Arjun Singh
	Shakti: The Power	Narasimha
2003	Bhoot	Inspector Liyaqat Qureshi
	Darna Mana Hai	John Rodrigues
	Aanch	Mahadev
2004	Ab Tak Chhappan	Inspector Sadhu Agashe
2005	Apaharan	Tabrez Alam
	Pak Pak Pakaak	Bhutya	Marathi film
	Bluffmaster!	Chandru Parekh
2006	Taxi No. 9211	Raghav Shastri
2007	Hattrick	Doctor
	Dus Kahaniyaan	Man Carrying balloons for dead wife in the story "Gubbare"
	Welcome	Don Uday Shetty
	Yatra	Dasrath Joglekar
	The Pool	Bunglow Owner
2008	Ek: The Power of One	CBI Officer Rane
	Bommalattam	Film Director	Tamil Film
2009	Horn 'Ok' Pleassss	Govinda
2010	Paathshaala	Principal Aditya Sahay
	Raajneeti	Brij Gopal
	Tum Milo Toh Sahi	Subramanium
	Yaksha	Police Officer	Kannada Film
2011	Shagird	Hanumant Singh
	Deool	Bhau Galande	Marathi film
2012	Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal	brother
2013	The Attacks of 26/11	Rakesh Maria, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime).
	It's My Life	Businessman
	Hungame Pe Hungama	Jigar Bhaiya
2014	Dr. Prakash Baba Amte: The Real Hero	Dr. Prakash Amte	Marathi film
	Yashwantrao Chavan- Bakhar Eka Vaadalaachi	Pratap Deshmukh	Marathi film
2015	Ab Tak Chhappan 2	Inspector Sadhu Agashe
	Welcome Back	Uday Shetty
2016	Natsamrat	Ganpatrao Ramchandra Belwalkar	Marathi film
	The Jungle Book (Hindi)	Shere Khan (Voice)
	Tadka (film)	Tukaram	Hindi film

Philanthropy

Nana Patekar known for his simple lifestyle has been generous in donating to charities. He contributed money towards rebuilding of the flood ravaged villages in Bihar through the charitable organisation Anubhuthi. All the monetary remuneration he obtained for his performance in the movie Paathshaala was donated by him to five different charitable organisations. When he was awarded the Raj Kapoor award which carries a cash prize of Rs 10,00,000, he donated the entire amount towards drought relief activities in Maharashtra. He also provided financial aid to families of farmers who committed suicide due to indebtedness brought about by drought. He distributed cheques worth Rs 15,000 to 62 families of farmers from Vidarbha region in August 2015 and another 113 families from Latur and Osmanabad districts of Marathwada in September 2015.

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