Nidhhi Agerwal is an Indian actress who primarily works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. After participating in Miss Diva Universe 2014, Agerwal made her acting debut with the Hindi film Munna Michael (2017), for which she received Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut.Agerwal made her Telugu debut with Savyasachi (2018) and Tamil debut with Eeswaran (2021). For the former, she received SIIMA Award for Best Female Debut - Telugu nominations. She has been part of successful films including iSmart Shankar (2019) and Kalaga Thalaivan (2022).

Early life

Agerwal was born in Hyderabad and brought up in Bangalore. Born into a Hindi-speaking Marwari family, she can understand as well as speak Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. Her birth year is reported inconsistently either as 1992 or 1993.Her schooling was at Debipur Milan Vidyapith. She holds a graduation in Business Management from Christ University, Bangalore. She is well trained in ballet, kathak and belly dance.

Career

In 2016, director Sabbir Khan confirmed that Agerwal was signed as the lead in his film ''Munna Michael'', alongside Tiger Shroff. She was chosen from among 300 candidates. Agerwal was also asked to sign a ''no-dating clause'' till completion of the film. She made her acting debut with the film, which received mixed to negative reviews from critics.Agerwal made her Telugu film debut in 2018 alongside Naga Chaitanya, with the film ''Savyasachi''. It did not perform well at the box-office. She had two releases in 2019. ''Mr. Majnu'' with Akhil Akkineni was unsuccessful at the box-office whereas ''iSmart Shankar'' alongside Ram Pothineni was a commercial success running for more than 100 days at the box office. The film received mixed reviews and was an average success. Her next film, ''Bhoomi'' with Jayam Ravi released the same year. It received negative reviews. She also appeared opposite Sonu Sood in Altaf Raja's recreation of ''Saath Kya Nibhaoge'' song. In 2022, she appeared ''Hero'' alongside debutant Ashok Galla. The film received mixed reviews from the critics and audiences as well. She also appeared alongside Udhayanidhi Stalin in Magizh Thirumeni's action-thriller film Kalaga Thalaivan, which received positive reviews from critics.She will next be seen as Panchami in Krish Jagarlamudi's ''Hari Hara Veera Mallu,'' that is scheduled to release in 2023.