The maverick Nana Patekar is also known in B-Town for his intensity on screen and eccentricities off-screen, but if it involves striking friendships, he can exit of his way. And the recipient of his largesse lately is Shreyas Talpade.
Both the actors, who met through the shoot of an upcoming comic caper, has been bonding big time of late. Shreyas now refers to him as Nana kaka, while the veteran actor calls him his 'son-in-law'! Patekar began relating to him as his 'jamaai, when a visitor at the sets asked him about his dosti with Shreyas.
"Seeing us bond in Marathi this man just assumed that we knew one another for years, " says Shreyas. So Nana told him, "I'VE seen Shreyas as a child! I DO KNOW his dad well and i've cradled him as a child in my arms." Taking it further he stated, "His wife Deepti is my daughter and he's hoping she's going to come at the sets soon."
In for a surprise
As his sense of timing was so natural and was saying it with a straight face, the visitor didn't even realise that he was joking. He was left wondering about when Nana had a 'daughter'.
Adds Shreyas, "Nana Kaka didn't even know Deepti but on the spur of the instant cooked up the tale! Later I introduced him to her. He will also be this sort of prankster keeping everyone in splits."
Nana, the chef
This is the primary time that the duo is operating together. "Though I USED TO BE conversant in Nana kaka earlier, shooting together gave me a chance to get to understand him. He's an adorable darling. There's such a lot to be informed from him, " says Shreyas. "He has such a lot of stories to narrate.
Listening to him is an important experience. He's also an even cook and knows even the normal methods of doing it. He cooked fish for us and that i must say it was fab." Aside from bonding at the sets, Nana has also made Shreyas realise the significance of fitness.
"He tells me either you go and exercise or visit the hospital! There are just two ways out." Seeing his fetish for being fit, Shreyas, too, has made it part of his daily life."
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
