Ananth N Mahadevan: Didn’t want to repeat angry Nana on screen

Updated On: 21 December, 2022 07:17 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR

As Patekar returns to big screen after five years with The Confession, director Mahadevan says internalised role in movie shows his range as a performer

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Almost five years after playing the antagonist to Rajinikanth in Kaala (2018), Nana Patekar is returning to the big screen with The Confession. So keen was director Ananth N Mahadevan about collaborating with Patekar that he approached him with three scripts. “I had given Nana three subjects. He liked the script of The Confession, and said yes instantly. The film [depicts] how our society has sacrificed many values today, and how a man stands up for them,” begins Mahadevan. The film is based on a real-life incident that took place in a village in Kerala, in 1966, where a priest was at the centre of a crime.

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