'I have kept dried wood for my funeral, burn me in that only,' Nana Patekar once said. In an interview in 2023, Nana Patekar had revealed he had already prepared for his cremation. "I know I'll need 12 maunds of wood. That's my final property. I'll leave with just that," he had said. "Don't use wet wood. Then tears will come to people's eyes... At that moment, I might misunderstand...and...think they're crying for me," Nana.