Veteran actor Nana Patekar dies at 75 after a massive heart attack
The actor, known for his booming voice and his dialogue delivery, leaves the film industry and theatre world in mourning.
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Well-known actor Nana Patekar is no more. He suffered a massive heart attack and died at the age of 75. His sudden death has plunged the entire film industry and the world of theatre into mourning.
Through his acting, Patekar made audiences laugh heartily at times and brought them to tears at others. Many of his lines are still remembered word for word by his fans. Powerful acting, a heavy voice and a distinctive way of delivering dialogue were his hallmarks, and it was these lines that made him so popular. The void his departure leaves in cinema will not be easy to fill. A look at some of his best-known roles and dialogues follows.
In the 1997 film 'Yashwant', Patekar played a police officer. People still remember this line from it: "You have come to watch the spectacle of my death. Now they will hang me. The tongue will hang out, the eyes will bulge, I will dangle for a while, then this brother of mine will take me down... then you will go home discussing it, eat your meal and go to sleep."
Some of his other well-known dialogues:
"Business, Kishan. In business nobody is anybody's brother."
"What will a police inspector argue with a joint commissioner? Someone must have called them a big sahib too. We are all part of the system. The system decides, I follow."
"God has given me everything. Wealth, fame, respect."
"Don't ask for my life, it has no value in the market."
Dialogues from the Marathi film and play 'Natsamrat' are remembered just as fondly. One of them goes: "Will anyone give me a house, a home?" The same film has an exchange between Appa and Kaveri: "I like you very much. I love you very much."
Another line from it says: "To be or not to be... to live or to die, that is the question. Should one live on, shameless, helpless and happy, as a scrap of a soiled leaf plate on the rubbish heap of this world?"
Another dialogue from the same work: "After amassing wealth worth thousands, he scattered it like gulal, and that same Natsamrat was branded a thief in his own children's house!"
