Born on the first day of the year, this terribly talented actor has some totally different bracket of films to his credit. From his very first film, Nana Patekar believes in doing different roles and so far has come out with a wide variety of roles. None have been similar to the other.

Nana Patekar's first film "Aaj Ki Awaz" could not do much for him. But N Chandra tapped this budding talent in "Ankush" which catapulted him to fame. There started a success formula which is still going strong. Some of Nana Patekar's other films are Amol Palekar's "Thoda Sa Romani Ho Jaaye", Vidhu Vinod Chopra's "Parinda", Mehul Kumar's "Krantiveer", Aziz Mirza's "Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman", Sanjay Bhansali's "Khamoshi", Partho Ghosh's "Agnisakhi" and N Chandra's "Wajood".

He has also attempted making a film "Prahaar" with Madhuri Dixit and Dimple Kapadia. Nana Patekar won the Best Actor's award for his films like "Parinda" (1990) and "Krantiveer" (1995).