Nana Patekar Recalls Being Hospitalised For 60 Days After Getting Burnt On Parinda Set

Nana Patekar played a pivotal role in the 1989 film Parinda. The crime drama was directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and featured Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in the lead roles. The film was critically acclaimed upon release and won several accolades. In a new interview, Nana Patekar spoke about sustaining major injuries while shooting for the climax scene of the movie. 

Nana Patekar recalls being on bed rest for months after Parinda shoot

Nana Patekar recently revealed that he sustained major injuries on the shoot of Parinda which left him unable to work for almost a year. He mentioned getting burnt while shooting for a fire scene. However, the actor added that it was an accident and no one was to blame for it. 

Speaking to Lallantop, Nana Patekar recalled, “It was a real fire. I was burning. After that shoot, I couldn’t do anything for a year. I was hospitalised for 60 days. The scene where you see me trying to escape the fire, I was burning. All my skin had peeled off… there was none left. There was no beard, mustache, eyebrow, or eyelids left. For six months, I was on complete rest.”

Nana Patekar admits that his injuries were an accident 

In the same conversation, the 73-year-old actor added, “In the first take, we put three buckets, in the second we put 14 buckets, so the fire was intense. However, it was an accident, it wasn’t that Vinod (director Vidhu Vinod Chopra) wanted me to burn. It just happened.” The actor recalled another accident that took place while he was shooting for Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay. 

Nana remembered the time when he was accidentally stabbed on the film set and claimed that such incidents often happen. The actor said, “You remember a scene where this guy comes and stabs me? For that scene, they had tied a tyre around my waist, but with the force that the boy stabbed me, the knife stabbed me and I was bleeding. They thought, ‘Kya acting ki hai’. These sort of accidents keeps happening.”