Paul made her acting debut with drama film CityLights (2014), for which she won the Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female.

She has since appeared in the film Nanu Ki Jaanu (2018) and the series Mai Hero Boll Raha Hu (2021), Aar Ya Paar (2022) and IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack (2024).

[4] Patralekha was born on 20 February 1990[5][6][7][8] in Shillong in a Bengali family, to a Chartered Accountant father and a homemaker mother Papri Paul.

[13] Directed by Hansal Mehta, the film tells the story of a poor couple living in Rajasthan who move to Mumbai in search of livelihood.

[21] In 2019, Patralekha played a surrogate mother opposite Divyendu Sharma in the Zee5 film Badnaam Gali and received positive response for her performance.

Archika Khurana of Times of India stated, "Patralekha raises the oomph factor as Laila and shares a sizzling chemistry with Parth.

[26] On 15 November 2021, the couple got married in a traditional Hindu wedding at The Oberoi Sukhvilas Spa Resort in Chandigarh.