Nitin Chandrakant Desai funeral: Aamir Khan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Eknath Shinde pay last respects to art director

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar paid their last respects to Desai at JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Friday morning.

Nitin Desai’s children Siddhant and Mansi at his funeral. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Aamir Khan at Nitin Chandrakant Desai’s funeral. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Besides Aamir Khan, several film personalities paid their last respects to Nitin Desai. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali at Nitin Desai’s funeral. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

The late art director’s last rites were performed at his studio in Karjat. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Art director Nitin Desai’s family at funeral. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Nitin Desai was found dead at ND Studio on Wednesday morning. Police had said it was a suspected case of suicide due to the debt he was facing. He was 57.

The postmortem reports of the Bollywood art director was conducted by a team of four doctors on Wednesday. Raigad Police said, “Postmortem of art director Nitin Desai has been conducted by a team of four doctors. As per preliminary findings, the cause of death is due to hanging. Further investigation is underway.”

Nitin Chandrakant Desai had collaborated with filmmakers like Ashutosh Gowariker, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He was famed for his work in movies like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (2000), Lagaan (2002), and Devdas (2003), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015).

Desai is survived by his wife Naina, daughter Mansi and son Siddhant.