nana patikar profile

Nana Patekar Born Vishwanath PatekarJanuary 1, 1951 (1951-01-01) (age 58)Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra India Occupation Actor Filmmaker Years active 1978 – present Spouse(s) Neelakanti Patekar [show]Awards won Filmfare Awards Best Actor 1995 KrantiveerBest Supporting Actor1990 ParindaBest Villain1992 Angaar2006 Apaharan National Film Awards Best Actor1995 KrantiveerBest Supporting Actor1990 Parinda1997 Agni Sakshi Nana Patekar (Marathi नाना पाटेकर) (born 1 January 1951 as Vishwanath Patekar) is a highly acclaimed Indian actor and filmmaker 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 Patekar, and they have a son Malhar Patekar. 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 and is held in high regard for this ability. He is known to give generously to the poor. He is also a sketch artist with his sketches having sometimes helped the Mumbai Police to track criminals. 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 done the occasional villain role, but has also 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 in Khamosh: 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 2006: Filmfare Best Villain Award, Apaharan 2006: Star Screen Award Best Villain, Apaharan Patekar is the only actor ever to win Filmfare Awards in both 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 Parinda (1990) ... Vasant Mandre Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen (1990) ... Natwarlal aka Dhrushtadyumna padmanabh Prajapati Neelkant Dhumketu Barish Kar : 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 Powr (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