Veteran actor Nana Patekar recently shared details about his personal life and a tragic event that made him reflect on the kind of person he is. He discussed his anger issues, recalling the loss of his elder brother and young son. Nana mentioned that he might have inherited his temper from his abusive mother, who beat him regularly and never showed sadness, even when her eldest son died as a teenager after falling from a building.
In an interview with The Lallantop, Nana also spoke about losing his own son, who was born with multiple disabilities and died at the age of two. When asked about coping with the loss, he said in Hindi, “My elder son was born with a cleft palate, he also had difficulty seeing through one eye. The first thought that ran through my mind when I’d see him like this was, ‘What will people think about me, that my son looks like this’. Imagine what a terrible man I am. My first worry was what people would say about me, not him.”
Nana Patekar said his son was named after the “angriest rishi,” Durvasa. He died at two and a half, but he taught the actor a lot. “He’s the triggering point. It happens… I’ve always had a chin-up attitude. I don’t cry. I cry only in the movies, and I do that for money,” he said. Nana also opened up about his wife. He mentioned that they haven’t lived together for years, and she was the one who took care of his elderly mother while he was away living his life.
He said he smoked constantly after his son died, which made people avoid him. “At that time, I used to smoke about 60 cigarettes a day. I even smoked while bathing. But it’s a very bad thing. No one would sit in my car because of the foul smell. I never drank alcohol much but I smoked a lot,” the actor said.
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