Following her debut with Birbal Trilogy Case 1: Finding Vajramuni (2019), Rukmini received critical acclaim for the 2023 romantic drama Sapta Saagaradaache Ello – Side A and Sapta Saagaradaache Ello – Side B, winning Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – Kannada for them.

Her father, Colonel Vasanth Venugopal,[2] is Karnataka's first recipient of India's highest peacetime military decoration, the Ashoka Chakra.

[3] He was killed in action in 2007 while preventing heavily armed infiltrators from crossing the India-Pakistan border at Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.

[4] Her mother, Subhashini Vasanth, is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer who has set up a foundation to support war widows in Karnataka.

[10] A Sharadhaa of The New Indian Express noted, "Rukmini effortlessly emerges as the luminary, and she doles out a remarkable performance as Priya,"[11][12] The same year, she appeared opposite Ganesh, in Baanadariyalli.