She has an elder sister named Lakshmi Marikar, who was a former child actor in the Malayalam film No.

She was offered the role in her debut film Aanandam through its cinematographer Anend C. Chandran, a friend to her sister.

[2] Her second film Vimaanam (2017) featured Prithviraj Sukumaran in the lead role, and was directed by debutante Pradeep Nair.

[6][7] In 2019, she appeared in debutante director Manu Ashokan's Uyare, along with Parvathy Thiruvothu, Tovino Thomas and Asif Ali.

[8] Manu, who had previously worked with Anarkali in Vimaanam as an associate director, cast her in the movie seeing her performance.