Mumbai/UNI: Popular TV and film actor Nitish Pandey passed away reportedly due to cardiac arrest here on Wednesday.

He was 50 years old.

He began doing theatre in 1990 and In 1995, he got his first show ‘Tejas’ in which he played a detective.

He has worked in serials like ‘Manzilein Apani Apani’, ‘Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani’, ‘Saaya’, ‘Justajoo’ and ‘Durgesh Nandini’.

Nitish has also done movies like ‘Om Shanti Om’, ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’, ‘Badhaai Do’, ‘Dabangg 2’, among others.

He also had an independent production house - 'Dream Castle Productions' which produces Radio shows.

He was last seen in Star Plus show ‘Anupamaa’ as Dheeraj Kapoor.