In a recent interview, actor Nana Patekar discussed his challenging experience working with director Vidhu Vinod Chopra on the 1989 film Parinda. He mentioned that they often clashed on set and now wishes each meeting with the filmmaker to be their last. Both known for their fiery temperaments, their conflicts on the Parinda set were also mentioned by Chopra last year while promoting his project, 12th Fail. During an appearance on the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, host Aditya Narayan asked Vidhu Vinod Chopra about his on-set relationship with Nana Patekar. In response, Chopra shared several anecdotes about their heated interactions. “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,” said the filmmaker.
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’.”
During a heated moment, the cameraman suddenly declared the shot was ready. Vinod Chopra stepped aside, and Nana quickly took his place. He recalled, “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.”
Vidhu Vinod Chopra mentioned the film was made on a budget of only Rs 12 lakh, and they couldn’t even afford catering. They all had to bring their own meals, and their first argument was about Nana Patekar asking for lunch. “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)?’ In an interview with The Lallantop recently, Nana Patekar was also asked about Parinda, and he said that he would get angry at Vinod when he’d call ‘action’ too loudly. “Every time I meet him, I wish it to be the last,” he said.
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