Director Nitin Chandrakant Desai Death: People know him not because of his work but because of his simple nature... Ali Peter John

He was born in a little village in Maharashtra called Dhapoli. Which was far away from any city or culture or civilization. He hardly went to any school and college was out of the question. He went to a Marathi medium school. But could not complete school because his heart was in some other place - Ali Peter John

Nitin loved painting pictures and portraits on the floor. The walls and the doors and windows of his small house and he loved doing what he was doing without any worry about the future.

One of his relatives who was an artist in Bobeay saw Nitin's paintings and asked his father to send Nitin to the j.j School of Architecture. Art and painting in Bombay.

He had classmates like Nana Patekar. Amol Palekar and Diwaakar and many other young men and women who were very promising artists and painters. But n.d as Nitin was known as the best of them.

Nitin passed whit honors and started looking for any kind of work that could satisfy his artistic sensibilities and he started working under a leading art director called Nitish Roy and he kept making so much progress that when director Vidhu Vinod Chopra launched 19 42 ...a love story.

He took on nitin desai has his art director and what did in 1942 made history and he was accepted as the number one art director of the country and was working on all the prestigious films being made not only in Bumbai or India. But all over. The filmmaking countries in the world.

Nitin planned to build a massive in Karjat close to where his village is now. It took him several years to give shape to all his dreams and when his n. D. Studio was ready. He had a grand opening ceremony.

And even though the entire industry was present. Including Amitabh Bachchan. He gave the honor of declaring n.d. Studio open only by his old grandparents from Dhapoli where they were still looking after their fields and Nitin Chandrakant has become an institution and n d studio is a landmark

Nitin Desai had worked with many experienced producers

In his career spanning 20 years, Nitin Desai worked with veteran filmmakers such as Ashutosh Gowariker, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He was the brain behind the sets of iconic Bollywood films such as 1942: A Love Story, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Devdas (2002) and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010). His last as an art director was 'Panipat' directed by businessman Ashutosh Gowariker, which was released in 2019.

Famous Art Director Nitin Chandrakant Desai dies by committing suicide by hanging himself at ND Studio in the Karjat area, , about 80 km from Mumbai.