After Iqbal (2005), she transitioned to adult roles and found success with Kotha Bangaru Lokam (2008), The Tashkent Files (2019), and OTT platform films and web series such as Serious Men (2020), Criminal Justice (Season 3, 2022), India Lockdown (2022), Jubilee (2023) and Tribhuvan Mishra: CA Topper (2024).

[5] Shweta studied commerce at the R. N. Podar High School, Santacruz, Mumbai, and completed her graduation in mass media and journalism.

Shweta, who is herself trained in playing the Sitar, is a classical music enthusiast and made this project from her own pocket out of passion.

[13] Shweta played a rookie journalist and central protagonist in The Tashkent Files (2019), a suspense drama thriller based on the death of India's second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Shweta has worked on OTT films and series, Serious Men,[16] Comedy Couple,[17] and High[18] in 2020, Ray (2021),[19] Jamun (2021),[20] Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach (season 3, 2022),[21] and Jubilee (2023).

[22] Shweta has acted in short films Interior Café: Night, which she also produced,[23] Visa, Chubhan, and The Lovers.

After her release, she issued an open letter to the media clarifying as false and misleading, a statement attributed to her by a journalist at the time of the arrest.

[29] In the letter, she said during the time of the arrest, she was attending the Santosham Film Awards event and staying at the hotel arranged by the organizers.