She has garnered attention for her directorial debut, Martin Luther King a 2023 Indian Telugu-language political satire film, a remake of Mandela.

[4] She shot her first feature documentary, A Woman Who Climbs Trees,[5] centered around the life of Dr. Meg Lowman, a renowned National Geographic Scientist in the Amazon rainforests in Peru as a one-woman production team.

[6] The documentary received the Special Jury Award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival in 2020.

Puja is actively involved in the academics, mentoring and teaching as a guest faculty in screenwriting and production at Annapurna College of Film and Media.

Moreover, Puja has served as a visiting professor at Annapurna College of Film and Media and as a documentary filmmaker at TREE Foundation.