A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Anjali appeared in Murder at Monkey Hill, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s diploma film as a final year student there in 1976.
The previous year she had already appeared in a short role in Shyam Benegal’s Charandas Chor.
[1] In 1977, she appeared in Amol Palekar starrer Taxi-Taxie but the film flopped.
The same year she appeared as a main female lead in the film Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan.
[citation needed] She also acted in Chakra and Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai after that.