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Actor and filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar recently remembered his late friend and veteran actor Nana Patekar.
Speaking to News18 Marathi, Manjrekar expressed regret at not being able to meet Nana Patekar for the last time before his death in Goa on 8 October 2026.
During this, he also gave a statement on the Tanushree Dutta controversy of 2018. Manjrekar claimed that nothing wrong had happened on the sets of the film ‘Horn OK Please’ and that the old matter was blown out of proportion without any reason.
Actor and filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar.
‘I knew everyone present on the set, nothing happened there’
Mahesh Manjrekar said in the conversation that he personally knew everyone present on the sets of the 2008 film ‘Horn OK Please’.
He said, “Some people are such that if everyone supports them and one person doesn’t, they don’t like it. They bring up old issues again. I know what happened on the set that day. All the people present there were known to me and everyone told me that nothing had happened on the set. The matter was blown out of proportion unnecessarily.”
‘Nana suffered a lot without any mistake’
Manjrekar expressed grief remembering the impact the controversy had on Nana Patekar. He said that Nana has suffered a lot in this whole matter without any reason.
According to Manjrekar, such things should be ignored, but in the era of social media, everyone has their own opinion and there is no cure for it.
Let us tell you that after the death of Nana Patekar, actress Tanushree Dutta again talked about this controversy by sharing a video on social media, due to which this issue came into discussion again.
After the death of Nana Patekar, Tanushree Dutta again talked about this controversy by sharing a video.
What was the whole matter?
The dispute between Tanushree Dutta and Nana Patekar started in 2008 during the shooting of the film ‘Horn OK Please’.
In March 2008, shooting of a song from the film was going on at Filmistan Studio in Mumbai.
Tanushree alleged that during the shooting of the song, Nana Patekar tried to come close to her and touch her inappropriately on the pretext of teaching her dance steps.
She also alleged that such intimate steps were added to the choreography of the song, which made her uncomfortable. Tanushree left the shooting midway in protest.
According to him, after this Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers attacked his car outside the studio. He had also complained to the police and Cine and TV Artistes Association (CINTAA).
Nana Patekar’s film ‘Horn OK Please’ was directed by Rakesh Sarang.
In September 2018, Tanushree mentioned this incident again in a TV interview. After this this matter came into discussion at the national level.
Tanushree had filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police against Nana Patekar, choreographer Ganesh Acharya, director Rakesh Sarang and producer Sami Siddiqui.
At the same time, in the year 2019, Mumbai Police filed a B-summary closure report in the court saying that sufficient evidence was not found.
After this, in 2025, Andheri Magistrate Court of Mumbai also dismissed the criminal proceedings against Nana Patekar on the basis of lack of evidence and delay in the complaint.
Nana Patekar spoke on the allegations
In an interview given to Lallantop in the year 2024, Nana Patekar was asked that he got angry when Tanushree made serious allegations against him.
On this Nana had said, “If it is a lie, then why are you angry? Now what can I say about what had happened. I did not get angry.”
On the question of FIR, Nana had said, “That is fine, whatever else happens, I have no problem with that, but now in front of any child or girl, if they say that we…he tortured us, now everyone knows what has happened to us. We don’t know anything, no, nothing had happened, so how would we have known? If it had happened, we would have told something. If someone says that you did this, what will we say? We did not. Did, what can be said other than this.”
Nana Patekar died of a heart attack in a hospital in Goa on 8 October 2026 at the age of 75. Doctors gave CPR for about 45 minutes to save him, but he could not be saved.
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