The untimely demise of Nitin Chandrakant Desai, a four-time National Film Award winner for Best Art Direction for his classic films, is a very sad sign of both the state and plight of Hindi cinema. This is the bitter truth of all the filmmakers and their companies of Hindi cinema who are engrossed in the life of show off and it is also true that Nitin Desai was running mentally disturbed for several weeks due to being in huge debt. His decision to take his own life is also believed to be the culmination of this.
Nitin Desai Death: Art Director Committed Suicide Due To Financial crisis and debt .
Nitin Desai, who learned the nuances of filming historical stories by joining Govind Nihalani’s serial ‘Tamas’, caught the work of art direction in the serial ‘Chanakya’ midway. The audience of Hindi cinema first liked his work in Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s film ‘1942 A Love Story’. After this, films like ‘Lagaan’, ‘Swades’ and ‘Devdas’ made the name of the art of making sets according to their time famous in the country and the world. He also made the sets of KBC for the shooting of Hollywood film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ in Mumbai.
