Nimisha Pandey

Nimisha Pandey
Born (1983-03-27) 27 March 1983 (age 41)
Haryana, India
Occupation(s)Content director and curator
Years active1999 — present
AwardsNational Award (2004)

Nimisha Pandey is a 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, Pune in 2004, majoring in television direction. She was the youngest person to receive the National Award, for her short film “Cradle Song” in 2005.[1] Her documentary “Nice Girls” received the Best Documentary Award at the Digital Film Festival, New Delhi in 2006.[citation needed]

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 (Sony TV), Qubool Hai (Zee TV), Arjun (TV series) (Star Plus), Shapath (Life OK), Humse Hai Liife (Channel V), Havan (TV series) (Colors TV), Jyoti (NDTV Imagine), Grihasti (Star Plus), Sapno Se Bhare Naina (Star Plus), Ek Ladki Anjaani Is (Sony TV), Kusum (Sony TV), Amber Dhara (Sony TV), Salaam Zindagi (Sony TV).

In 2015, she became head of content[2] for the web platform ALT Balaji Digital Entertainment.[3] 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, The Test Case (web series), Home, Apharan, Haq Se, Broken, Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain, Karrle Tu Bhi Mohabbat, Boygiri, Romil & Jugal, Fourplay, and Ragini MMS.

Nimisha Pandey worked at from 2018 to 2020 Netflix as Director of International Originals to expand their Indian content.[4][5] On the 18th of January, 2021, she was appointed as Head of Hindi Originals for Zee5.[6][7]

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

  1. ^ "Awards won by the FTII films". Film and Television Institute of India. Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Stories that cannot be told on any other medium, is the first lens to choosing concepts at ALTBalaji - Nimisha Pandey, Content Head, ALTBalaji". 13 March 2018.
  3. ^ "AltBalaji". Alt Balaji.
  4. ^ "ZEE Entertainment appoints Nimisha Pandey to head Hindi Originals for ZEE5". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. ^ Laghate, Gaurav. "Zee5 taps former Netflix executive Nimisha Pandey to head Hindi Originals" – via The Economic Times.
  6. ^ "ZEE Entertainment appoints Nimisha Pandey to head Hindi Originals for ZEE5". 18 January 2021.
  7. ^ "ZEE Entertainment appoints Nimisha Pandey to head Hindi Originals for ZEE5 - ET BrandEquity". ETBrandEquity.com.