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Vishwanath "Nana" Patekar (born 1 January 1951) is an Indian actor and filmmaker.

Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar (a painter) and his wife Sanjanabai Patekar. He is an alumnus of the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai.

He acted in movies such as Gaman (1978), Mohre (1987) and Salaam Bombay! (1988) and was noticed by the mainstream Bollywood industry for his portrayal of the villain in the 1989 film, Parinda, for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was also awarded the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for the role. He won the Filmfare Best Villain Award in 1992 for Angaar.

In 1994, he won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Krantiveer (1994). He also won the Filmfare Award and the Star Screen Awards in the best actor category.

Patekar has played many types of roles. He has played the occasional villain but been a hero in most of his films. He played a truant, gambling son in Krantiveer (1994), a wife beater in Agni Sakshi (1996), a deaf father to Manisha Koirala in Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) and a schizophrenic in Wajood (1998). In the movie Ab Tak Chappan (2005) he plays a police officer who is a sharpshooter. Patekar has also done comic roles in Welcome (2007) in which he plays a powerful crime lord who once desired to be an actor in films.

Shivajirao Moghe is an Indian politician. He is the Indian National Congress Party member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Kelapur-Arni, Yavatmal.

He is currently the minister of Social Justice in Maharashtra Cabinet since November 2009.

He was earlier elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra fro Kelapur in 1980, 1985 and in 1999 as Indian National Congress candidate and 1995 as Independent.

Praful Manoharbhai Patel (born February 17, 1957, Kolkata) is a Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bhandara-Gondia parliamentary constituency and is a member of the Nationalist Congress Party. He currently holds the title of Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises in the Government of India. Before moving to the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Patel was a Minister of State for Civil Aviation from May 2004 up to January 2011. Praful Patel has been associated with numerous corruption investigations, within India and abroad.

He is the son of a Congressman, Manoharbhai Patel. Patel was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha in 1991 at the age of 34. He was then elected three times consecutively to the 10th, 11th, and 12th Lok Sabhas. In April 2000 he was chosen to Rajya Sabha . and again re-elected in April 2006. He is currently a member of the 15th Lok Sabha

Patel took over as the Minister for Civil Aviation in 2004. While a leading Business daily in India, the Economic Times, named him Business Reformer of the year in 2007 for his pathbreaking initiatives in India's Aviation sector, Praful Patel has also been subjected to extensive criticism for the unsuccessful merger of India's two state airlines – Air India (International) and Indian (Domestic), and the subsequent holding company's escalating financial losses.