Housefull 5 Actor Nana Patekar: Veteran actor Nana Patekar arrived as a guest in the quiz -based reality show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 17’ and sat on the hot seat. During this time, he revealed the reason for his return to his village and staying away from Mainagari Mumbai.
Amitabh Bachchan’s question and Nana Patekar’s simplicity answer
The host of the show Amitabh Bachchan asked the question to Nana Patekar, ‘You achieved so much in life, then why did you leave everything and go to the village?’ Sharing his heart on this, Nana Patekar replied with simplicity and said, ‘I am not from the film industry. I just come to work here and then go back. I never went to any party, nor stayed more in the city. I belong to the village and like to live there. I like the life there.
I got immense affection from mother
Nana got emotional and said, ‘I have got many times more than as much as I wanted from my mother. It is very easy to limit the needs. I do not have AC, because I do not need it. Just as there are walls all around in the city, there are mountains around my house. My house surrounded by mountains, and I live there comfortably. I like it very much.
Madhuri Dixit’s bridges of praise
When an audience asked Nana on the show, how was her experience working with Madhuri Dixit in the film ‘Existence’? So he said, ‘Working with Madhuri Dixit was a great experience. She is a great actress, beautiful, is a wonderful dancer, and she has everything that should be in every human being. I look at him with great respect.
Further in the show, the audience also asked Nana Patekar to tell Madhuri Dixit in the film ‘Extension’ and also asked the question related to ‘How to tell you’. Smiling to this, the actor replied, ‘That poem was written by Javed Akhtar Saheb. It has been almost 30-35 years for that film, but I still remember this poem. I heard this poem to Madhuri, so it is difficult for me to forget. Even today it seems as if that poem is running in my blood. Whenever someone asks me about that poem, a lot of memories are fresh in the heart. Nana Patekar came with actor Utkarsh Sharma, actress Simrat Kaur and writer-director Anil Sharma on the show.