Sham Kaushal breaks down seeing Nana Patekar's mortal remains. Veteran action director Sham Kaushal, who received his first break from Nana Patekar in 1991, mourned the actor's death. Kaushal recalled Patekar rushing him to hospital during a ruptured appendix in 1998 and staying in the OT during his cancer surgery in 2003. He called Patekar a father-figure to sons Vicky and Sunny Kaushal.