Starring: <strong>Nana Patekar, Sanjeev Jaiswal,Atul Kulkarni</strong> Directed by <strong>Ram Gopal Varma</strong> Rating: <strong>****</strong> Somewhere in the re-telling of the saga of bloodbath, torrential shower of bullets and bombs that rained down on Mumbai on 26 November 2008 a little child sitting lost amidst a carpet of corpses in the posh hotel lobby of the Taj weeps on the gleaming white marble floor now reduced to a bloodied mess. We then hear another round of gunfire and then, the child’s weeping ceases.

It was literally a case of the ill will being washed away in a wave of tears when the Big B, Amitabh Bachchan viewed Ram Gopal Varma’s latest project <em>The Attacks On 26/11</em> . The Big B was so profoundly moved by the film and Nana Patekar’s performance as top-cop Rakesh Maria that he immediately got in touch with Nana to congratulate him. A surprise for Nana, since he and the Big B have not exactly been on the best of terms ever since they worked together 13 years ago in Mehul Kumar’s <em>Kohram</em>.

Nana Patekar has refused to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the veteran, people making beneficial contributions to the society merit such awards and not him. "Anybody and everybody gets up and forms any organisation and institutes a Lifetime Achievement Award and they also accept it," Patekar said without identifying anyone. The 62-year-old actor was speaking at a function organised by Thane police.

Starring: <strong>Nana Patekar, Shreyas Talpade, Madhurima Bannerjee, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Asrani, Neeraj Vora</strong> Directed by <strong>Priyadarshan</strong> Rating: <strong>***</strong> If you can overlook the outrageous suggestion that Nana Patekar could be Om Puri’s son then you’re in for some clean healthy wholesome and engaging fun in this comic drama about a stranger who walks into a Catholic village and changes malfunctioned lives with his positivity.