# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nitin-chandrakant-desai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:43:26.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nitin-chandrakant-desai"
name: "Nitin Chandrakant Desai"
slug: "nitin-chandrakant-desai"
description: "Nitin Chandrakant Desai was an Indian art director, production designer, and film and television producer. He was most known for his work in Marathi and Hindi Films, World Cultural Festival 2016 at Delhi and films like, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), Lagaan (2001), Devdas (2002), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). During his career spanning twenty years, he worked with directors like Ashutosh Gowarikar, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. In 2002, he turned film producer with Chandrakant Productions' Desh Devi, a devotional film on the Devi Mata of Kutch."
tagline: "Art director, production designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nitin_desai_premiere_marathi_film.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-08-09"
deathDate: "2023-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.03978779840849
  historical:           6.214981333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0220834"
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    title: "Десаи, Нитин Чандракант"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump