At 56 years young, Nana Patekar can’t be held down. Well, at least he couldn’t up until his recent severe foot injury. Now, he’ll be out of commission for two months at the very least. It happened on the sets of his new comedy Horn OK Pleasss.

“It happens. It was quite a freak accident. I was dancing and twisted my ankle when my foot hit a stone. I heard something crack. I had a torn ligament. I had to go through an operation.”

Homebound for some time, he’ll be catching up on reading, cooking, exercising and finishing his script that he wants to direct early next year. It is a love story about an older man and a younger woman. Patekar wants either Vidya Balan or Rani Mukherjee for the role.

At the present time, Patekar has two films on the floor, the completed Shagird with director Tigmanshu Dhulia and Rakesh Sarang’s Horn Ok Please, which needs a bit more work to be completed. It would have been finished my the month’s end sans Patekar’s injury.

Patekar’s next release is Anees Bazmi’s Welcome with Akshay Kumar, Mallika Sherawat, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Feroz Khan and Paresh Rawal. When asked about his dancing with Mallika, Nana gets uncharacteristically shy. “Arrey nahin! I just do what the director asks me to. But I do enjoy dancing, I can’t deny that. Never mind I can’t do much of that right now.”