Nimisha Pandey is an Indian television and Internet content developer and curator. Born in Haryana and raised in New Delhi, she graduated from the

Film and Television Institute of India The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. ...

, Pune in 2004, majoring in television direction. She was the youngest person to receive the

National Award The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian P ...

, for her short film “Cradle Song” in 2005. Her documentary “Nice Girls” received the Best Documentary Award at the Digital Film Festival, New Delhi in 2006. Through her career as creative director, Pandey has developed several award-winning, popular and critically acclaimed Indian Television shows including de Humsafars (Sony TV),

Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do ''Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do'' () is an Indian soap opera that premiered on 20 October 2015. It was aired Monday through Friday at 9 pm on Sony TV. The show stars Iqbal Khan and Mona Singh as the protagonists. The show is produced by Ekta Kapoor ...

(Sony TV), Qubool Hai (Zee TV),

Arjun (TV series) ''Arjun'', also known as ''Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek – Arjun'', is an Indian Hindi-language action crime television series which aired on Star Plus from 11 August 2012 through 23 February 2014 on Monday and Friday evenings. It is the fifth tel ...

(Star Plus), Shapath (Life OK),

Humse Hai Liife ''Humse Hai Liife'' (''Life Is Because Of Us'') is an Indian soap opera Indian television dramas, often called Indian series or serials, are scripted television programs made in India, featuring Indian actors. These dramas are broadca ...

(Channel V),

Havan (TV series) ''Havan'' () is an Indian television drama series that premiered on 26 September 2011 and ended on 30 March 2012. It aired on Colors on weekday evenings. The show is produced by Rajan Shahi of Director's Kut Productions. Plot ''Havan'' is a sto ...

(Colors TV), Jyoti (NDTV Imagine),

Grihasti ''Grihasti'' is a family drama produced by Sphere Origins, that aired on StarPlus during weekday afternoons. The show premiered on 25 February 2008 and aired until 27 March 2009. Synopsis ''Grihasti'' is based upon the Khurana family. After th ...

(Star Plus), Sapno Se Bhare Naina (Star Plus), Ek Ladki Anjaani Is (Sony TV),

Kusum ''Schleichera'' is a monotypic genus of plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. There is only one species, ''Schleichera oleosa'', a tree that occurs in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Species ''Schleichera oleosa'', kusum tr ...

(Sony TV),

Amber Dhara ''Amber Dhara'' is an Indian Hindi language television series that aired on Sony Entertainment Television from 24 September 2007 until 24 April 2008, based on the lives of conjoined twins, Amber and Dhara. Plot The story revolves around the li ...

(Sony TV), Salaam Zindagi (Sony TV). In 2015, she became head of content for the web platform

ALT Balaji ALTT is an Indian subscription based video on demand platform which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms Ltd. Launched on 16 April 2017, ALTBalaji is the group foray into the digital entertainment sphere to create original OTT cont ...

Digital Entertainment. Over three years, she was involved in the creation of over 30 popular and critically acclaimed limited-series multi-season shows, making ALT one of India's first and most successful Indian web platforms. The shows included

Dev DD Dev DD is a 2017 Hindi web series, conceptualised and produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor for Balaji Telefilms. It is directed by Ken Ghosh, for video on demand platform ALTBalaji. The web series released on 21 April 2017. It stars Asheema ...

, The Test Case (web series), Home, Apharan, Haq Se, Broken,

Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain ''Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain'' is an Indian Hindi web series produced by Shristi Arya Behl and Goldie Behl for Ekta Kapoor's video on demand platforms ZEE5 and ALTBalaji. The series stars actors Ronit Roy, Mona Singh, and Gurdeep Kohli. The series ...

, Karrle Tu Bhi Mohabbat,

Boygiri ''Boygiri'' is a 2017 Hindi web series, created and produced by Tanveer Bookwala for the video on demand platform ALTBalaji. The web series is about six friends whose lives are filled with adventures and crazy moments. The series is available f ...

Romil & Jugal ''Romil and Jugal'' is an Indian Hindi web series, produced by Ekta Kapoor for her video on demand platform ALTBalaji. Rajeev Siddhartha and Manraj Singh are the main protagonists of the series. The first debut of Raj Routh as a writer in the Al ...

, Fourplay, and Ragini MMS. Nimisha Pandey worked at from 2018 to 2020

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as Director of International Originals to expand their Indian content. On the 18th of January, 2021, she was appointed as Head of Hindi Originals for

Zee5 ZEE5 or Z5 is an Indian subscription video on demand and over-the-top streaming service, owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched in India on 14 February 2018 with content in 12 languages. The ZEE5 mobile app is available on We ...

. Her family consists of her parents, Krishna Kumar Pandey and Nisha Pandey, her brother Nitin Pandey, and her husband Alok Sinha.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pandey, Nimisha Film directors from Haryana 1983 births Living people Film and Television Institute of India alumni

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