Nitin Desai, a four-time National Award winner for Best Art Direction, was found dead at his ND Studio in Karjat. 

• Nitin Desai was a four-time National Award winner for Best Art Direction. He has worked with celebrated directors over his two-decades long career in Bollywood, including Ashutosh Gowarikar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
• Some of his notable works include Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Jodha Akbar, Lagaan, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai and Bajirao Mastani, among others.
• His last project as an art director was with Ashutosh Gowarikar on the 2019 film Panipat. For his work, he was honoured by the prestigious Art Directors’ Guild Film Society and American Cinematheque in Hollywood.