Bose's status as a filmmaker grew following the critical and commercial success of the dramas Margarita with a Straw (2015) and The Sky Is Pink (2019).

Shonali Bose was born on 3 June 1965 in Calcutta, West Bengal, and spent most of her young adult life in Mumbai and New Delhi.

[7][8] Her 2014 production, Margarita, with a Straw, starring Kalki Koechlin as a girl with cerebral palsy, premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim.

[1] In 2019, Bose has written and directed The Sky Is Pink, a film based on the motivational speaker Aisha Chaudhary, starring Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar and Zaira Wasim.

[10][11][12] She directed the short Raat Rani, featuring Fatima Sana Shaikh, for the 2022 anthology Modern Love: Mumbai.

[13] Bose has committed to write the pilot episode for an untitled television series based on Diksha Basu's novel The Windfall.

[7] She is currently shooting for the Amazon Original, The Notorious Girls of Miranda House, produced by Pritish Nandy Communications.