Nana Patekar is considered a veteran artist of the Bollywood film industry. Everyone appreciates his work and his talent. The actor has given many good performances in his career. But there are some performances which proved to be beyond excellence and the dialogues and songs of those films still remain on people's lips. In reality, these two films are the only ones which truly made Nana Patekar a big superstar of the film industry. These films are Krantiveer and Tiranga. But do you know who were the directors of the two films which made Nana a big face of the industry and where are they today? The name of this director is Mehul Kumar.
Talking about Mehul Kumar, he is a big director of the industry. He has made many films in his career. But some of his films proved to be a boon for actor Nana Patekar. Mehul Kumar was born in Gujarat. He also started his career by making Gujarati films. After making many Gujarati films, he made the film Anokha Bandhan, casting Shabana Azmi. The film was liked a lot. After this he properly turned towards Hindi cinema.
After this he made many films including Love Marriage, Marte Dum Tak, Jangbaaz, Naisafi, Aasmaan Se Uncha, Aansoo Bane Angale. He cast big actors like Govinda and Anil Kapoor. But after this he gave a big lead role in commercial cinema to Nana Patekar, who did unconventional roles. Perceptions broken. Illusions removed. A new era has begun. Of Nana era. This era is still prosperous and flourishing. Recently Nana Patekar's film Vanvas has released. Even today at the age of 73, he is playing lead roles. Doing commercial films in full swing. But it started with the film Tiranga released in 1992. Nana's pairing with Raj Kumar in the film was so strong that it is praised even today.
Mehul and Nana Patekar did the Tricolor together in the year 1992. The film was successful. After this, both of them were seen in the film Krantiveer in the year 1994. His acting was very much liked in this film also. Even today's generation knows the dialogues of Krantiveer. Apart from this, in the year 1999, he made the film Kohram with Nana Patekar and Amitabh Bachchan. This film also proved to be a superhit at the box office. Even though Amitabh had the lead role in the film, Nana was also in the second lead in the film and played his role brilliantly. Apart from this, Nana also acted in many films including Ankush, Deeksha, Disha, Agni Sakshi, Yashwant, Angar, Khamoshi and Yugpurush. But Krantiveer and Tiranga were the films which brought him the most fame.
In the year 2004, Mehul Kumar made the film Jaago with Manoj Bajpayee, Sanjay Kapoor and Raveena Tandon. After 6 years, he came with the sequel of the film Krantiveer in 2010. But since then none of his films has been released in theatres. Now his age has also become 75 years. They stay away from limelight. He has 3 children.
