He turned director with his movie Prahaar: The Final Attack co-starring Madhuri Dixit.
Patekar has also done Comic roles in the recent film Welcome (2007) in which he plays a powerful crime lord who once desired to be an actor in films. In the movie Ab Tak Chappan (2005) he plays a police officer who is a sharpshooter.
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). He has played the occasional villain but has played a hero in most of his films. Patekar has played various type of roles. He also won the Filmfare Award and the Star Screen Awards in the best actor category. In 1994, he won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Krantiveer (1994). He won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar. He was also awarded the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the role. 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. Vishwanath "Nana" Patekar (Marathi: नाना पाटेकर) (born 1 January 1951) is an Indian actor and filmmaker.īorn Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar (a painter) and his wife Sanjanabai Patekar.
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