Nitin Desai, National award winner for best art direction, found dead at his studio | Oneindia News
Nitin Desai, a four-time National Award winner for Best Art Direction, was found dead at his ND Studio in Karjat. Please watch the video to know the details.
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00:00 The renowned Indian art director Nitin Desai died by suicide on Wednesday morning.
00:06 As per reports, he hung himself to death at his own ND studio, which is located at a 90-minute drive from Mumbai.
00:14 Trygarsu, pretended of police Somnath Ghargis said Desai's body was found hanging with a rope in the morning at the ND studio.
00:23 At around 9 am today,
00:26 the body of Mr. Nitin Desai was found hanging with a rope at the ND studio.
00:36 In this regard, the Akashmarath Murthy's investigation is underway at the Khara Pulk Police Station.
00:43 The forensic team, cyber forensic team, dog squad and fingerprint team are on the way to investigate.
00:53 The police are investigating everything.
00:56 Incidentally, Desai ended his life just days before his birthday on August 9th.
01:02 He would have turned 58 in a week.
01:05 Desai was a four-time National Award winner for Best Art Direction.
01:10 He has been credited with designing lavish sets for some of the blockbuster films including
01:16 Hamdil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Jodha Akbar, Lagaan and Bajirao Mastani, among many others.
01:24 In his career spanning over two decades, Desai had worked with a number of stalwart filmmakers including
01:31 Sanjali Labansali, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani and others.
01:38 It was in 2005 when he opened his ambitious ND studios in Karjat, in the outskirts of Mumbai.
01:47 Spread over 52 acres, the studio has been home to several film sets, the most prominent one being Jodha Akbar.
01:55 Not just films, but several seasons of the reality show Bigg Boss were also hosted inside the ND studio.
02:03 After several years of being an art director and production designer, Desai dabbled in direction and production for films.
02:11 He turned film producer in 2003 with the film Desh Devi Maa Shapura.
02:17 In the years that came by, he went on to produce TV series and his Marathi serial
02:23 Raja Shiv Chhatrapati was a blockbuster among the regional masses.
02:28 He has also been credited for producing the biopic Bal Gandharava in 2011, based on the life of one of the
02:35 most popular Marathi singers and stage actor, Shripar Raj Hans.
02:40 He also directed a couple of films, Hello Jai Hind in 2011 and Ajinta in 2012.
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