[2][3] He appeared as one of the supporting leads in the CBS/Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Back When We Were Grownups along with Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda, Jack Palance and Blythe Danner and directed by Ron Underwood.
Nigam was one of four leads in 20th Century Fox's The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest for director Mick Jackson and producers Harold Ramis and Trevor Albert.
[2] As for television, Nigam played the role of "Pandit Raj" in the Netflix series Never Have I Ever, recurred as the "Medical Examiner" in Season Two of True Detective, a regular in the role of "Nurse Manoj Nakshi" on the ABC medical drama MDs, and one of the leads in the ABC miniseries Tom Clancy's Netforce and in Showtime's Silver Strand.
[citation needed] In theater, Nigam has appeared alongside fellow-NYU alumni Philip Seymour Hoffman in the controversial production of the Peter Sellars directed The Merchant of Venice at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and The Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
[citation needed] In 2021, Nigam was named as a producer on Rust, which halted production due a firearms incident resulting in the death of a cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.