{
  "id": 12794171,
  "title": "Nana Patekar Passes Away: How Ace Actor Swapped Bollywood For Kargil Frontline",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/nana-patekar-passes-away-how-ace-actor-swapped-bollywood-for-kargil",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-08T04:17:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/nana-patekar-passes-away-how-ace-actor-swapped-bollywood-for-kargil-frontline"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When Pakistan backstabbed the Lahore bus diplomacy leading to the Kargil War in 1999, actor Nana Patekar was not one to stay in the safety of Mumbai. He was right where the action was, standing as a trained patriot in treacherous terrain to guard his country. The 75-year-old veteran actor and director, who had many accolades in his name, died after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Goa.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}