[2] Priyanka made her silver screen debut in Prabhat Roy's Bengali film Joddha (1997).

[3] She subsequently moved to Mumbai and acted in the Hindi film Mujhe Meri Biwi Se Bachaao (2001).

[5] S. Viswanath of Deccan Herald felt that Priyanka turned in "with a polished show as the doting, Facebook-addicted wife.

"[6] In her second release of the year, the horror film Mummy, Priyanka played a widow and a mother to a young girl and pregnant with a second child, who move in to a haunted villa.

"[11] In her first release after Devaki, a period film 1980, set in the same year as the title, Priyanka played a novelist.