Nisha Aggarwal is a former Indian actress and model who appeared in

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films. She is the younger sister of actress

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Early life

Aggarwal was born and brought up in a Punjabi family settled in

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(present-day Mumbai). Her father Suman Aggarwal, is an entrepreneur in the textile business and her mother Vinay Aggarwal is a confectioner, and her sister's business manager. She has an elder sister

, an actress in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi cinema.

Personal life

Aggarwal married a Mumbai-based businessman Karan Valecha, who is the owner of Gold's gym chain on 28 December 2013. On 27 October 2017, she gave birth to their son, Ishaan Valecha.

Career

In late 2010,

announced that Nisha would make her acting debut in Telugu films. Nisha had been travelling with her elder sister to the shooting sets and soon got noticed. Her first Telugu film, she said, happened after the director saw stills of her in a magazine. Her first film was the romantic drama, '' Yemaindi Ee Vela'', which was a box office success. Her performance was praised by critics. Her next film was ''

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'', which released in late 2011 and featured her as a medical college student, with a reviewer from

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stating that she "proves her acting talents in the second half, especially the climax". She made her debut in Tamil with the film '' Ishtam'' (2012), a remake of ''Yemaindi Ee Vela'', which was a box office failure. She appeared as a "chatpata village girl" in 2013 opposite

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in ''

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''. Later that year she starred in a film titled '' Saradaga Ammayitho'' that saw her pairing with her ''Yemaindi Ee Vela'' co-star

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again. In 2014, she entered the Malayalam film industry with ''

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'', playing Angel, an "educated and headstrong girl", who is the daughter of an ex-minister. She then appeared in another Malayalam film, ''

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Filmography

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Agarwal, Nisha Living people 21st-century Indian actresses Actresses from Mumbai Actresses in Tamil cinema Actresses in Telugu cinema Female models from Mumbai Indian film actresses Actresses in Malayalam cinema Year of birth missing (living people)