Nitin Desai death: Initial reports confirm the Art director ‘died of hanging’, read police statement inside | Hindi Movie News
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Ashutosh Gowariker, who has worked with Nitin Chandrakant Desai on films namely ‘Lagaan’, Panipat, and Jodha Akbar, to name a few, mourned over the death of the famous Art director, who committed suicide at his N.D. Studios, Karjat, at the wee hours of Wednesday (August 3). Reports states that Nitin
Nitin Chandrakant Desai, 57, was found hanging at his studio, which stands on 42 acres of land at Chowk village in Raigad district, on Wednesday. Locals remember him as someone who bonded easily with them.
As per preliminary findings, the reason for dying is because of hanging. Additional investigation is underway.”
Earlier, a supply from his studio had solely knowledgeable ETimes that Desai had left behind an audio recording. The supply stated, “It was deliberate correctly by ND. Final night time (Tuesday) he took all of the keys from the safety and informed his boy to depart him alone on the Studio as he has some essential work to be performed. ND got here to see him off on the gate and requested him to come back subsequent morning round 8:30 am. He additionally requested him to see the recording which he stated he’ll discover in Studio no 10.”
“At night time, on the units of Marathi Pavool Padte Pudhe, Studio quantity 10, he drew a bow and arrow with sutali (rassi), he positioned a ladder on the bow and arrow, and hung himself,” the supply additional informs.
Within the recording, Desai additionally requested to not let ND Studios be taken away from him. He additionally specified that his final rites be carried out at Studio no 10.
Desai is understood for tasks like Lagaan and Devdas. He had opened this sprawling studio within the Khalapur taluka on the outskirts of the monetary capital the place movies like Jodha Akbar had been shot. His firm ND’s Artwork World is engaged within the enterprise of organising, sustaining, working replicas of historic monuments and offering services and providers associated to accommodations, theme eating places, procuring malls and recreation centres.
