Oct 11, 2026
Author Spotlight: Nana Patekar — The Fire Bollywood Never Learned to Hold
A deep dive on Nana Patekar — the Murud-Janjira-born poster painter who became one of Indian cinema's most intense actors and died on 8 October 2026, aged 75; the three-time National Film Award winner whose rage and tenderness burned through Parinda, Krantiveer, Agni Sakshi and Natsamrat; the honorary Lieutenant Colonel who served in the Kargil War; the co-founder of the Naam Foundation for Maharashtra's farmers; and his five defining reflections on hunger as a teacher, the anger that acting saved him from, the only religion he believed in, the soldiers he called India's greatest weapon, and a life that never put money first.