She won acclaim and praise for movies like Joke Falls (2004), Beru (2005), Photographer (2006), Koti Chennaya (2007), Gaalipata (2008), Krishna Nee Late Aagi Baaro (2009) and many others.

Her first commercially successful movie was Joke Falls, where she was paired alongside Ramesh Aravind, which was positively reviewed, and was directed by Ashok Patil.

Her performance in her next movie, Poojari, opposite Aadhi Lokesh, brought her closer to the Kannada audience.

She also was a part of box cricket league where she was a player for the team Davangere Lions, which emerged runners up.

Her father, Manjunath Shetty, was from the Bunt community and her mother, Mohini is from a Konkani speaking family.