{"id":274709,"date":"2026-10-19T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=274709"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:15:36","slug":"b-crush-fond-farewell-nana-patekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/b-crush-fond-farewell-nana-patekar\/","title":{"rendered":"B.Crush: Fond Farewell, Nana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nana Patekar. (Press Information Bureau)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indian cinema lost one of its greatest acting powerhouses, Oct. 8, as Vishwanath \u201cNana\u201d Patekar passed away at age 75. Nana was a raw, unfiltered actor who delivered dialogues with intensity, making his role memorable and the hallmark of the film.<\/p>\n<p>He redefined the villain as \u2018Anna Seth\u2019 in \u201cParinda,\u201d became the fiery conscience in \u201cKrantiveer,\u201d and brought a chilling realism to \u201cAb Tak Chhappan.\u201d He sent the audience laughing as \u2018Don Uday Shetty\u2019 in \u201cWelcome,\u201d and delivered a tragic masterclass in his native Marathi \u201cNatsamrat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nana was honored with three National Film Awards and the \u2018Padma Shri.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His rapid-fire swag will be missed, immensely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nana Patekar. (Press Information Bureau) Indian cinema lost one of its greatest acting powerhouses, Oct. 8, as Vishwanath \u201cNana\u201d Patekar passed away at age 75. Nana was a raw, unfiltered actor who delivered dialogues with intensity, making his role memorable and the hallmark of the film. He redefined the villain as \u2018Anna Seth\u2019 in \u201cParinda,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/b-crush-fond-farewell-nana-patekar\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65022,21],"tags":[33,29119,10132],"class_list":["post-274709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-craze","category-entertainment","tag-bollywood","tag-nana","tag-nana-patekar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274713,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274709\/revisions\/274713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}