12th Fail director Vidhu Vinod Chopra reveals he tore Nana Patekar's kurta on Parinda sets when he hurled abuses at him: 'The tears that you see...'

Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Parinda featured Nana Patekar, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor & Madhuri Dixit in prominent roles

The legendary actor of Indian cinema, Nana Patekar recently spoke about the difficulties he faced while working with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra while working in Parinda . Both personalities are known for their fiery temperaments. In the last year, while promoting 12th Fail on the sets of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa , Aditya Narayan asked the filmmaker about his equation with Patekar, to which, Chopra replied, “I’d seen Nana in a play called Purush, and it’s very important to say this, but those days, I never used to curse. I was a very well-behaved young man from Kashmir. But it all changed because of Nana.” He continued, “When I’d direct him in a scene, he’d hurl abuses at me. I wondered how I would direct him at all. So, that’s when I started abusing him back. I started swearing only because I had to direct Nana.” Recalling a scene, the filmmaker added, “There’s a scene in the film where Nana asks if he has tears in his eyes after his wife has died... We’d been shooting all day, and it was late in the evening. Nana declared that he was too tired to continue and that he was going home. I told him, ‘Sure, you pay for the overheads then’. He started swearing at me, I swore back, and in the scuffle, I tore his kurta. The cops on set said, ‘We’re here to protect you, and you’re fighting among yourselves’.” “If you watch the scene, he’s wearing a vest in it because his kurta had just been torn. The tears that you see in his eyes are real because we’d just fought. Later, we hugged it out and he told me, ‘I was nervous about the scene’. That’s how Parinda was made,” recalled the director. “The first fight we had was over food, because he asked for lunch. I asked him, ‘ Ghar se nahi laaya khaana (Didn’t you get food from home)?," added Chopra.