[2] Pooja made her acting debut in Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna (2011) portraying Padmini, a friend in Dhanush's gang.

Pooja then joined the theatre group Stray Factory and has worked on stage performances and online videos with the company.

[6] In 2015, she worked on the production of four films, including roles in Karthik Subbaraj's Iraivi and Manikandan's Kutramum Thandanaiyum.

[10][11][12] She has worked for Lokesh Kanagaraj's 2022 Kamal Haasan starrer Vikram, in which she was the performance coach for Vijay Sethupathi[13] with particular emphasis on his body language for this role.

Her association with Vijay Sethupathi has been a long one[14] and she is his performance coach for both the Sriram Raghavan film Merry Christmas and Kishor Pandurang Belekar's upcoming silent feature Gandhi Talks.