Nitin Desai Death: Hansal Mehta Opens Up On Fight with Self-Harm Impulses; Says 'It Felt Like A Dark Tunnel'

Art director Nitin Desai as found dead at his N D Studio in Karjat. While the police is yet to share further details about the cause of his death, initial reports claim he died by alleged suicide. The police has arrived at the spot for further investigation. It is claimed that Nitin died by suicide but a suicide note has not been recovered so far. Following his tragic demise, filmmaker Hansal Mehta took to Twitter to write a note on how the burden of financial challenges in an emotion-driven industry can be overwhelming.

He wrote, “Financial pressures in an industry run on emotions can be debilitating. I have faced many a crisis particularly after Omertà and Simran. The failure of the film and the cycle of debt I got into had led me towards a very dark place. The involvement of ‘powerful’ mediators or shall I say coercive forces made things even worse. It was a scary time.”

The director went on to write that not long back, he struggled with the impulse to harm himself, but found solace in the support of family and a few close friends. “I fought the impulse very often in the not so distant past to do something harmful to myself. This was mostly because of the comfort given by family and some true friends who I could talk to. But in times that I Was alone it always felt like a deep, dark and endless tunnel. I wouldn’t have original ideas to share, I wouldn’t have any creative thoughts and I often succumbed to considering myself much inferior to many around me – both as an artist and as a human being. Somehow the faith that this darkness would end and even more by seeking professional help and of course being blessed enough to be immersing myself in work I’ve managed to emerge out of that awful phase,” he added.

Condoling the death of the National Award-winning art director, he wrote, “The great Nitin Desai’s tragic passing away and talks of his troubles got me revisiting that time. Am terribly sad at the loss of a remarkable artist. Om Shanti.”

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