Nainita Desai

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 American Murder: The Family Next Door, 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.

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)
 * American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
 * 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (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)
 * American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
 * Enslaved (2020)
 * ''Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism and Me' (2020)

Video game

 * Telling Lies (2019)
 * Immortality (2022)
 * Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Season 3) (2023)
 * Tales of Kenzera: Zau (2024)