India, Oct. 8 -- Veteran actor Nana Patekar died in the early hours of Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his residence in Goa. According to Dr Shekhar Salkar, Chief of the Department of Oncology at Manipal Hospital, the actor was found unconscious at his apartment and was taken to a private medical facility. Doctors tried to revive him for around 45 minutes, but he could not be saved and was declared dead at approximately 5:10 am. Dr Salkar said Patekar remained in asystole, meaning there was no electrical activity in his heart, throughout the resuscitation attempts. A medico-legal case has been registered and a post-mortem is expected to be conducted.

For an actor who spent more than four decades in the film industry and earn...