[6] At around 14 years of age, actor Suniel Shetty spotted her and invited her to dance on stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She was one of the few non-Telugu speaking actresses to work with noted Indian film stars Chiranjeevi, Nandamuri Balakrishna, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh, Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, Ravi Teja, and Jr NTR.

But due to her unavailability in the second shooting schedule,[7] she was eventually replaced by Kiran Rathod owing to her popularity after the Tamil film Gemini (2002).

She took up popular Telugu remakes of Jyothika's blockbuster Tamil films like Dhool (Veede) and Priyamaana Thozhi (Vasantham)[8] In 2005, media reported that Agarwal had attempted suicide over the failure of a romantic relationship with a co-star.

[13] On June 6, 2015, Agarwal was pronounced dead on arrival at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.