the shocking demise of art director and production designer nitin chandrakant desai has left the entire film industry shocked he reportedly died by suicidemns district president jitendra patil opened up about the same to a news portal he said there were financial issues and shoots were not taking place at nd studios most shoots were getting cancelled one needs to investigate who was cancelling the shoots was there any pressure on directors and producersalthough no suicide note was found from his room an audioclip was recoveredread alsono suicide note but an audio recording found from nitin chandrakant desais room confirms policethe national awardwinning art director and production designer died by suicide todayashutosh gowariker on his way to nd studios says i am stunned and shocked with nitin desais demiseashutosh 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 nd studios karjat at the wee hours of wednesday august 3 reports states that nitinhowever the police officials are currently tightlipped about the audio clip while the police are investigating the case a senior police officer fromkarjat told toi the forensic team is here we got a call from the caretaker at around 930 in the morning he was found hanging the forensic team is doing the spot analysis at the moment interrogation has not started yet we are taking everything one step at a timehe further added no suicide note was found however we did find an audio recording the forensic team is on it once they are done with their work we shall send the body for postmortemhis last venture as an art director was ashutosh gowariker helmed panipat which released in 2019