[2][3] Her commercially successful films include 1983 (2014), Vellimoonga (2014), Darling (2015) and Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran (2016) .

Thereafter she did her PUC from Bishop Cotton Women's Christian College, Bangalore and later took up a course in fashion designing.

Galrani played the character Manjula Sasidharan, a village girl and teenage lover of Rameshan (Pauly), who loves cricket more than anything.

[18] The film received critical acclaim and became a box office success,[19] while Galrani went on to win the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South for her performance.

[20] A week later, Galrani had her second release, Nivin Pauly and Nazriya's Ohm Shanthi Oshaana, in which she had performed a cameo role.

[22] At the end of the year, IBTimes called Galrani the most successful actress of 2014 in Malayalam cinema.

She had signed up Sharath A Haridaasan's Enthoru Bhagyam[28] and V. K. Prakash's next project,[29] but had to opt out of both due to conflicting schedules.

[30] The delay of Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka meant that the horror comedy Darling that she began shooting for much later became her debut Tamil release.

[42][43] Galrani starred in Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran (2016) a Tamil film where she played a police officer opposite Vishnu Vishal.

Blasting News stated that "Nikki Galrani was spectacular, and the trio literally captured the soft part of audience's hearts".