Nisha

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Nisha may refer to:

Contents 1 Language 2 People 3 Miscellaneous 4 Fictional characters

[edit] Language

• Nisha means Night in Sanskrit. In Hindi this word is taken as such.

[edit] People

• Nisha Agrawal, writer in Dainik Bhaskar
• Nisha Kothari, Bollywood actress
• Nisha Ganatra, a director, writer and actress
• Nisha Bissambhar, a chutney musician.
• Nisha Da Cunha, an author and alumna of Miranda House, a residential college for women forming part of Delhi University, India
• Nisha Mathura-Allahar, the treasurer of the Committee for Transformation and Progress, a Trinidad and Tobago political party
• Nisha Abraham - Thomas, a contestant in Hard Spell, a televised spelling bee that aired on BBC One in late 2004.
• Nisha K. Nayar, an actress who played Angela in Different for Girls, a 1996 British comedy
• Nisha Kataria, a musician whose first album was produced by Dieter Dierks
• Nisha Patel, murdered British-Indian Special constable (died May 2006)
• Nisha Sharma, a member of the India's 1980 Women's Olympics Hockey Team
• Nisha Benjamin, a musician from Guyana
• Nisha Millet, a swimmer who swam the Women's 200 m Freestyle for India at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Nisha Singadia, wrote a story which got published in a book (Things That Go Bump In The Night).

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Nisha, a possible future tropical cyclone name
• Nisha #1, a comic by Robert Gavila that was nominated for the Howard E. Day Prize
• Nisha Nimantran a poem by Indian poet Harivanshrai 'Bachchan'

[edit] Fictional characters

• Nisha, a character in the 2003 Pakistani film Pyar Hi Pyar Mein
• Nisha, a character in the The Art of the Heist, an alternate reality game created to promote the Audi A3
• Nisha Choudhury, a character played by Madhuri Dixit in the 1994 Bollywood film Hum Aapke Hain Kaun
• Nisha, a character played by Nisha Raveena Tandon in the 2000 Indian romantic comedy Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye
• Nisha, a character played by Sunetra Sarker in the Brookside, a soap opera based in Liverpool that first aired in 1982
• Nisha, a character played by Preity Zinta in Koi... Mil Gaya (2003), and again in Krrish (2006) a Bollywood science fiction film
• Nisha, a character played by Karisma Kapoor Dil To Pagal Hai a 1997 Bollywood comedy-drama
• Nisha Patel/Nisha Kumar, a character played by Mumtaz in the 1971 film Tere Mere Sapne
• Nisha, a character played by Mumtaz in the 1971 film Kathputli
• Nisha, a character played by Manisha Koirala in the 1993 film Insaaniyat Ke Devta
• Nisha, a character played by Manisha Koirala in the 2001 film Chuppa Rustam
• Nisha, a character played by Konkona Sen Sharma in the 2005 film Amavas
• Nisha, a character played by Neelima Azim in the 1995 film Zamana Deewana
• Nisha Thappar, a character played by Karisma Kapoor in the 2001 filmEk Rishtaa: The Bond of Love
• Nisha, a character played by Sonali Bendre in the 1998 film Major Saab
• Nisha, a character played by Sonali Bendre in the 2000 film Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke
• Nisha, a character played by Shilpa Shetty in the 1996 film Himmat
• Nisha, a character played by Mahima Chaudhry in the 1999 film Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin
• Nisha, a character played by Himani Shivpuri in the film Anjaam
• Nisha Chopra, a character played by Juhi Chawla in the 1999 film Arjun Pandit
• Nisha Bains, a station café waitress on Postman Pat, a BBC stop motion animated children's television series aimed at pre-school children