Nainita Desai is a British composer of film, television and video game music. She is known for her scores for the films For Sama, The Reason I Jump and ', and video game Telling Lies. In 2016, Nainita was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit.
Life and career
Nainita was born and raised in London by her Indian parents. She holds a degree in mathematics and studied sound design at the National Film and Television School. She started her career as a sound designer on the films Little Buddha, Lessons of Darkness and Death Machine.
Filmography
Selected films
- Little Terrorist (2004)
- Forced Confessions (2012)
- Molly (2014)
- Checkpost (2014)
- The Life After (2018)
- Anemone (2018)
- Untamed Romania (2018)
- //_sleeper (2018)
- Exit Eve (2019)
- Lab Rat (2019)
- Enemy Within (2019)
- Darkness Visible (2019)
- For Sama (2019)
- The Reason I Jump (2020)
- ' (2020)
- ' (2021)
Selected televisions
- The Confessions of Thomas Quick (2015)
- Treasures of the Indus (2015)
- Kolkata with Sue Perkins (2015)
- Cameraman to the Queen (2015)
- Mumbai High: The Musical (2015)
- African River Wild (2016)
- The Day Hitler Died (2016)
- Burma's Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson (2016)
- The Murder of Sadie Hartley (2016)
- The Big Food Rescue (2016)
- Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall (2017)
- Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure (2017)
- Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (2016-2017)
- First Ladies Revealed (2017)
- Inside London Fire Brigade (2017)
- My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 (2017)
- Diana: The Day Britain Cried (2017)
- Tribes, Predators & Me (2016-2017)
- The Ganges with Sue Perkins (2017)
- Raped: My Story (2017)
- Extreme Wives with Kate Humble (2017)
- Wild Africa: Rivers of Life (2018)
- Earth's Natural Wonders (2018)
- My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me (2018)
- Catching a Killer (2017-2018)
- The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (2018)
- Neighbourhood Blues (2011-2018)
- Trevor McDonald: Return to South Africa (2018)
- The Detectives: Inside the Major Crimes Team (2018)
- Extraordinary Rituals (2018)
- Am I a Murderer? (2018)
- Defenders UK (2018)
- David Jason: Planes, Trains & Automobiles (2019)
- Equator from the Air (2019)
- The 1900 Island (2019)
- The Day We Walked On The Moon (2019)
- My Grandparents' War (2019)
- My Family, the Holocaust and me (2020)
- Hometown (2019-2020)
- Fierce Queens (2020)
- Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation (2020)
- The School That Tried to End Racism (2020)
- Bad Boy Billionaires: India (2020)
- ' (2020)
- Enslaved (2020)
- Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism and Me (2020)
Video game
Awards and nominations
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