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Nitin Chandrakant Desai is a Actor, Director, Writer, Producer and Production Design Indian born on 6 august 1965 at Mulund (Inde)
Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Devnagari:नितीन चंद्रकांत देसाई) is a noted Indian art director and production designer of Indian cinema turned film and television producer, most known for his work in films like, Lagaan (2001), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Devdas (2002) and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). During his career spanning twenty years, he has 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.
He has won National Film Award for Best Art Direction four times, and Filmfare Best Art Direction Award three times. In 2005, he opened his "ND Studio" s spread over 52 acres (210 000 m) at Karjat, Navi Mumbai, near Mumbai, which has since hosted movies like Jodha Akbar, Traffic Signal as also Sony's reality show Big Boss.
(2001)
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Birth name Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Nationality Inde
Birth 6 august 1965 at Mulund (Inde)
Death 2 august 2023 (at 57 years)
Awards Filmfare Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 6 august 1965 at Mulund (Inde)
Death 2 august 2023 (at 57 years)
Awards Filmfare Awards
Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Devnagari:नितीन चंद्रकांत देसाई) is a noted Indian art director and production designer of Indian cinema turned film and television producer, most known for his work in films like, Lagaan (2001), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Devdas (2002) and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). During his career spanning twenty years, he has 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.
He has won National Film Award for Best Art Direction four times, and Filmfare Best Art Direction Award three times. In 2005, he opened his "ND Studio" s spread over 52 acres (210 000 m) at Karjat, Navi Mumbai, near Mumbai, which has since hosted movies like Jodha Akbar, Traffic Signal as also Sony's reality show Big Boss.
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Balgandharva (2011)
, 2h4Directed by Ravi Jadhav
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Subodh Bhave, Vibhawari Deshpande, Suhas Joshi, Kishor Kadam, Anand Abhyankar, Rahul Deshpande
Roles Lokmanya Tilak
Rating77%
The film is a biopic on life on Balgandharva showing his struggles through poverty to riches and fame. Narayan Rajhans while in a public performance of his singing at Pune receives his new honour and name "Balgandharva". On advise of Shahu Maharaj, the king of Kolhapur state, he starts his formal training and joins Kirloskar Natak Mandali. Narayan wins claps of his audiences and becomes the key performer of all Sangeet Nataks. To please his insistent mother Narayan marries Laxmi. On the opening day (March 12, 1911) of his play Sangeet Manapamaan, his infant daughter dies. But he goes ahead with the performance and enthralls the audience. Due to disputes in the company Narayan decides to start his own company named Gandharva Natak Mandali. Fully devoting himself towards his passion of drama and singing he overlooks his family. Giving audience's satisfaction key priority he starts spending money without any considerations. He loses many of his friends because of such attitude. He blindly believes in Balasaheb Pandit, who keeps his company's accounts. Narayan's carefree nature results in his bankruptcy. Meeting Gohar Bai, who is his fan, he falls in love with her and leaves his wife and family. With his old age, he also loses the charm of holding audiences. When cinema is introduced, theatre fails to grab audiences. Balgandharva also signs contract with V. Shantaram's Prabhat Film Company to act in films. Money in films would also reduce his economic burden. But he never likes the methodologies of film production and abandons it after only one film where he plays the lead role of Sant Eknath. Looking at his poverty many Royalties pay him honorary amounts in order to repay his debts. But he in turn donates this money to other charities.
Hello Jai Hind! (2011)
Directed by Gajendra Ahire
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Trupti Bhoir, Kedar Shinde
Roles Shivaji Pawar
Rangeela (1995)
, 2h22Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Jackie Shroff, Urmila Matondkar, Gulshan Grover, Rajeev Mehta, Avtar Gill
Rating73%
A street-toughened orphan by the name of Munna (Aamir Khan) is befriended by some kind folks, whose effervescent daughter Mili (Urmila Matondkar) soon grows to be his best buddy. Both gravitate toward the Mumbai movie industry. While Mili finds occupation as a movie extra, Munna earns his livelihood selling movie tickets in the black market.
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Once Upon A Time In Bihar (2015)
Directed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Genres Thriller
Actors Ashish Vidyarthi, Aarti Puri
Rating64%
Ajintha (2012)
Directed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Actors Sonalee Kulkarni, Makarand Deshpande, Murali Sharma, Manoj Joshi
Rating60%
Scriptwriter
Once Upon A Time In Bihar (2015)
Directed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Genres Thriller
Actors Ashish Vidyarthi, Aarti Puri
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Producer
R... Rajkumar (2013)
, 2h25Directed by Prabhu Deva
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood, Poonam Jhawer, Ashish Vidyarthi, Asrani
Roles Production Designer
Rating53%
Romeo Rajkumar (Shahid Kapoor) is an aimless youth who arrives in small town of Dhartipur been ruled by two drug barons named Shivraj Gurjar (Sonu Sood) and his arch enemy Manik Parmar (Ashish Vidyarthi), controlled by a Mafia don named Ajit Taaka (Srihari), who operates in Hong Kong. Rajkumar now works for Shivraj. But his life changes forever when he claps eyes on the beautiful, educated Chanda (Sonakshi Sinha). What he does not know is, that Chanda is an orphan who is being raised by Manik Parmar. After some persistent wooing, Chanda falls for Rajkumar's charms. Just when their love was about to flourish, Shivraj and Parmar compromise and Parmar decides to get Chanda married to Shivraj, against Chanda's wish. Angered Rajkumar beats Shivraj's men and challenges him, saying that he will marry Chanda in front of Shivraj. Furious, Shivraj plans to get Rajkumar killed in an encounter by his pet police officer. But in return, gets a shocking surprise when it is revealed that Rajkumar actually works for Don Ajit Takka and was sent to Dhartipur only to take over the drug cartel to which both Shivraj and Parmar owe allegiance. Rajkumar captures Shivraj's truck full of drugs and drives it to Takka, revealing he himself was a big gangster all along. After giving Shivraj's stolen truck to Takka, he discovers that the truck was empty. In a twist of events, it turns out that Shivraj and Takka had joined hands, and purposely made Rajkumar steal the empty truck. Shivraj and Takka brutally kill Rajkumar and bury him. Shivraj starts his wedding celebrations with Chanda, only to be interrupted by the still alive Rajkumar, who is shown to have been rescued by one of Shivraj's henchmen after he was buried. Shivraj's men back off, because they are now friends with Rajkumar, hence leading to a one on one fight between the two. Finally, Rajkumar injures Shivraj with a power punch to the neck and later kills Don Takka with a ceramic tile. The film ends with all the men beating Parmar, while a severely injured Rajkumar and Chanda walk away hand in hand happily.
Zapatlela 2 (2013)
, 2h55Directed by Mahesh Kothare
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Adinath Kothare, Sonali Kulkarni, Sonalee Kulkarni, Sai Tamhankar, Laxmikant Berde, Makarand Madhukar Anaspure
Roles Production Designer
Rating52%
The film opens within the mansion of Baba Chamatkar (Raghvendra Kadkol). Kubdya Khavis has secured the doll containing the soul of gangster Tatya Vinchu (shown in prequel Zapatlela) and orders Baba Chamatkar to revive Tatya Vinchu again. However, Baba refuses to commit the same mistake again. Infuriated, Kubdya tries to kill him using a trishul (a weapon which looks like a trident). However, Baba uses the same weapon to kill him. A drop of Kubdya's blood is accidentally transferred towards the doll, which resuscitates Tatya Vinchu. Tatya confronts Baba Chamatkar and forces him to tell how to migrate to a human form. Baba resists in the beginning and then falls unconscious. Tatya finds a book named 'Om Fat Swaha' and discovers that, to migrate to a human form, the victim (Tatya) must make use of the Mrutyunjaya Mantra on the person to whom he has confessed his true name. But now that the person (Lakshya, portrayed by Laxmikant Berde in Zapatlela) is dead, the same mantra can be used on his son. Tatya vows to find Lakshya's son and migrate into his body.
Balgandharva (2011)
, 2h4Directed by Ravi Jadhav
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Subodh Bhave, Vibhawari Deshpande, Suhas Joshi, Kishor Kadam, Anand Abhyankar, Rahul Deshpande
Roles Producer
Rating77%
The film is a biopic on life on Balgandharva showing his struggles through poverty to riches and fame. Narayan Rajhans while in a public performance of his singing at Pune receives his new honour and name "Balgandharva". On advise of Shahu Maharaj, the king of Kolhapur state, he starts his formal training and joins Kirloskar Natak Mandali. Narayan wins claps of his audiences and becomes the key performer of all Sangeet Nataks. To please his insistent mother Narayan marries Laxmi. On the opening day (March 12, 1911) of his play Sangeet Manapamaan, his infant daughter dies. But he goes ahead with the performance and enthralls the audience. Due to disputes in the company Narayan decides to start his own company named Gandharva Natak Mandali. Fully devoting himself towards his passion of drama and singing he overlooks his family. Giving audience's satisfaction key priority he starts spending money without any considerations. He loses many of his friends because of such attitude. He blindly believes in Balasaheb Pandit, who keeps his company's accounts. Narayan's carefree nature results in his bankruptcy. Meeting Gohar Bai, who is his fan, he falls in love with her and leaves his wife and family. With his old age, he also loses the charm of holding audiences. When cinema is introduced, theatre fails to grab audiences. Balgandharva also signs contract with V. Shantaram's Prabhat Film Company to act in films. Money in films would also reduce his economic burden. But he never likes the methodologies of film production and abandons it after only one film where he plays the lead role of Sant Eknath. Looking at his poverty many Royalties pay him honorary amounts in order to repay his debts. But he in turn donates this money to other charities.
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The Lovers (2015)
, 1h49Directed by Roland Joffé
Origin Belgique
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Time travel films, Films set in the future
Actors Josh Hartnett, Neve Campbell, Alice Englert, Tamsin Egerton, Bipasha Basu, Abhay Deol
Roles Art Direction
Rating46%
In 2020, marine archeologist Jay Fennel (Josh Hartnett) is brain dead after trying to save his wife Laura (Tamsin Egerton) who got trapped exploring the wreck of a colonial British merchant ship. The comatose Fennel dreams about the adventures of Captain James Stewart in 1778 Pune (India), and his romance with a Maratha warrior, Tulaja Naik (Bipasha Basu).
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015)
, 2h44Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Swara Bhaskar, Armaan Kohli, Anupam Kher
Roles Art Direction
Rating44%
Yuvraj Vijay Singh (Salman Khan) est un prince strict et seul. Il n'est en effet pas proche de ses demi-sœurs, son demi-frère essaie de le détrôner et il est en froid avec sa fiancée, la princesse Maithili (Sonam Kapoor).
Manjhi - The Mountain Man (2015)
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery
Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Pankaj Tripathi, Urmila Mahanta, Deepa Sahi
Roles Production Design
Rating79%
In the 1960s Dashrath Manjhi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) lived in a small village Gehlaur near Gaya, Bihar, India with his family including his wife Phaguniya Devi (Radhika Apte). There was a rocky mountain near his village that people either had to climb across or travel round to gain access to medical care at the nearest town Wazirganj. One day Manjhi's wife fell while trying to cross the mountain, after which Manjhi decided to carve a road through it. When he started hammering the hill people called him a lunatic but that only steeled his resolve further. After 22 years of back-breaking labour, Manjhi carved a path 360 feet long, 25 feet deep in places and 30 feet wide.
Rang Rasiya (2014)
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Vipin Sharma, Paresh Rawal, Jim Boeven
Roles Production Design
Rating69%
Balgandharva (2011)
, 2h4Directed by Ravi Jadhav
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Subodh Bhave, Vibhawari Deshpande, Suhas Joshi, Kishor Kadam, Anand Abhyankar, Rahul Deshpande
Roles Art Direction
Rating77%
The film is a biopic on life on Balgandharva showing his struggles through poverty to riches and fame. Narayan Rajhans while in a public performance of his singing at Pune receives his new honour and name "Balgandharva". On advise of Shahu Maharaj, the king of Kolhapur state, he starts his formal training and joins Kirloskar Natak Mandali. Narayan wins claps of his audiences and becomes the key performer of all Sangeet Nataks. To please his insistent mother Narayan marries Laxmi. On the opening day (March 12, 1911) of his play Sangeet Manapamaan, his infant daughter dies. But he goes ahead with the performance and enthralls the audience. Due to disputes in the company Narayan decides to start his own company named Gandharva Natak Mandali. Fully devoting himself towards his passion of drama and singing he overlooks his family. Giving audience's satisfaction key priority he starts spending money without any considerations. He loses many of his friends because of such attitude. He blindly believes in Balasaheb Pandit, who keeps his company's accounts. Narayan's carefree nature results in his bankruptcy. Meeting Gohar Bai, who is his fan, he falls in love with her and leaves his wife and family. With his old age, he also loses the charm of holding audiences. When cinema is introduced, theatre fails to grab audiences. Balgandharva also signs contract with V. Shantaram's Prabhat Film Company to act in films. Money in films would also reduce his economic burden. But he never likes the methodologies of film production and abandons it after only one film where he plays the lead role of Sant Eknath. Looking at his poverty many Royalties pay him honorary amounts in order to repay his debts. But he in turn donates this money to other charities.
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010)
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Vishakha Singh, Sikander Kher, Nishikant Dixit, Amin Gazi
Roles Art Direction
Rating58%
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey is about a teacher Surya Sen a.k.a. Masterda (played by Abhishek Bachchan), who is a well-known revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army Chittagong, who had an instinctual flair for Swaraj and Independence. The film opens up with 16 teenagers playing football in an open field, when the army convoy steps up and orders them to evacuate the field for setting up a base there. When the children oppose their unauthorized evacuation, the soldiers threaten them and then leave, grinning and planning to meet Masterda Surya Sen.