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.

It is not often that a hit combo comes back to make yet another super hit. Paresh Rawal and Nana Patekar are coming back together in Percept Pictures’ Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal (KDM) directed by Priyadarshan all set to hit the marquee on 28 September. “Nana has a very unusual role in the film. He normally sets the screen afire with his dialogue delivery but this time it is his silence that will score,” remarks Paresh.

Two senior actors Nana Patekar and Om Puri, who are pitted together in Percept Pictures' Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal after a gap of after 30 years, are the ones who enjoy every moment of shooting together. In fact Puri gets immensely annoyed at somebody when he calls Nana Patekar Buddha. “How can you call him an oldie? He is my son from my last birth,” he goes on to add. Nana on the other hand keeps teasing Om Puri for his continual sleeping habits and grins that the senior actor can sleep even in the pauses between words!

So engrossed was the 62-year old Nana Patekar with the shoot of Percept Pictures’ Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal (KDM), that despite a back injury, he was always dot on time for the film’s shoot. When we enquired about his pain, Nana shot back saying, “Injuries are like guests. If you treat them well and pamper them, they stay back and refuse to go away. If you keep yourself aloof from their existence, they leave as quickly as they came.” To prove his point, Nana said that he effortlessly lifted Shreyas Talpade on his shoulders for a pose for the Priyadarshan-directed film.

In a rare case of animal-human bonding, the crew of Percept Pictures’ Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal was witness to Nana Patekar befriending a kid goat that was hired for the shoot. So much was the little delight attached to Patekar that it followed him on the sets and became his pal. When not facing the camera, the actor spent his time pouring love to the animal and feeding it grass. They got acquainted really well with each other. “They even communicated. The baby goat seemed to understand every word the actor said and nodded its head,” said a crew member.