Nana Patekar, the Indian Hindi and Marathi cinema actor whose roles ranged from the menacing crime lord of  Parinda  to the comic gangster of  Welcome,  died Oct. 8, at his residence in Goa. He was 75.

Patekar went into cardiac arrest at home and was declared dead at 5:20 am local time, news agency ANI reported.  Despite 45 minutes of continuous CPR, he could not be revived,  Dr. Shekhar Salkar, chief of the oncology department at Manipal Hospital, told ANI. Salkar said a medico-legal case had been opened and an autopsy would follow.

Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, in what is now in the western Indian state of Maharashtra's Raigad district, he studied at Mumbai's Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art. His first stage role came under director Vijaya Mehta. He made his film debut in  Gaman  in 1978 and spent the following decade in smaller Marathi and Hindi parts, including a role in Mira Nair's Oscar-nominated  Salaam Bombay!  (1988).

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His breakthrough came with  Parinda  (1989), in which he played a crime lord. The role brought him an Indian National Film Award for best supporting actor and the Filmfare award in the same category. Patekar also directed  Prahaar: The Final Attack  (1991), starring alongside Madhuri Dixit, and went through army training to prepare for his officer role.

 Krantiveer  (1994), in which he played a disgraced gambler who ends up rallying ordinary people to fight back, won him the Indian National Film Award for best actor along with Filmfare and Screen awards. A second National Award for supporting actor followed for  Agni Sakshi  (1996). The same year he played the deaf parent of Manisha Koirala in  Khamoshi: The Musical. 

He also took Filmfare's best villain prize twice, for  Angaar  (1992) and  Apaharan  (2005). Only he and Irrfan Khan won Filmfare trophies as lead, supporting player and villain.

In the 2000s he played a police encounter specialist in  Ab Tak Chhappan  (2004) and a taxi driver opposite John Abraham in  Taxi No. 9211  (2006). With  Welcome  (2007), in which he played Uday Shetty, a mob boss with thwarted movie-star
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