Nana Patekar - Life 'N' Lesson

Nana Patekar also called Nana was born on 1st of January 1950. He was an Indian actor, writer, philanthropist and a filmmaker. Nana worked in Hindi cinema and Marathi cinema and lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

To the success of his life, Nana won many awards such as National Film Award for Best supporting actor and the Filmfare Award for the best supporting actor for his role in Parinda which he shot in 1989. Nana won many awards for the best actor in the movies Krantiveer in 1994 and Apaharan in 2005. Patekar became the fourth highest civilian honour of India to get the Padma Shri award for his dedication in the field of films and arts.

Nana Patekar is known for his simple lifestyle and his generosity towards charities. Nana has also contributed money to worsley building of the flash Ravet villages in Bihar through the charitable organisation Anubhuti. All the monetary remuneration that Nana obtained from his performance in the movie Paathshala was generated by him to five different charitable organisations. Nana was awarded the Raj Kapoor Award which carries amount of 10 lakh rupees that he donated to the drought relief activities in Maharashtra.

In September 2015, Patekar established Naam Foundation with cell of Marathi actor Makarand Anaspure which works to provide farmers overcome by drought conditions in Maharashtra using a twitter campaign with the hashtag #icaresupportpataka was able to obtain funds to help Maharashtra drought victims.

Nana faced a lot of struggle and ups and downs, but if we talk about his true nature, he is a very kind and a charitable person and sources tell us about him that he donates 90% of his income to help the age group people who can’t afford to have a good quality of education.

Nana is a person that has motivated many many people and it would be very difficult to find such personality around us. Nana has always been more than just an actor. He has consciously and subconsciously done things that are far removed from the world of cinema and never left the continental movie star life with an entourage an expensive Lifestyle or a million appearances in the media as an actor who genuinely deserves your respect not just for this craft but also the fact that he is not content with just being that, Nana Patekar said “marte dum tak jeene ki wajah mil gayi hai mujhe” in his one of the interview to NDTV.

Nana’s life has a lot more to it than acting, he also served in the Kargil war as voluntary motivator while working on his debut directional venture Prahar. He took 3 years of intensive army training with the Maratha light infantry and all the training came handy, he chose to serve the Indian army during the Kargil war moving from past to post living with the Germans and sharing the map is also III in an actor after Mohanlal and Mammootty to have won an ordinary lieutenant colonel title.

Nana Patekar also runs NGOs and regularly visits them and help people and children donating clothes, food and medicines. He himself is working for such a big cause that all the citizen of India are so honoured to have such a personality in between them. Other than the actor and actresses who wear expensive clothes and dresses in the award functions, Nana value kurta pajama and attend the award function. His simplicity level is just beyond our imagination, this inspires us and aspires the nation to be simple and sober and be helpful and grateful for all that God has given us so that we can also payback. The Bollywood industry respects him we as citizen respect him and see him as a leader as an inspiration for all of us and we intend ourselves to be like him and just be exceptional like ‘THE NANA PATEKAR’

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