In the course of 7 years she has acted in a variety of plays viz., The Pregnant King, The Red Queens of the Black Night, Siri Sampige, The Particle Collider and Fire and the Rain etc.

[5][6] As a voice artist, her work appeared in regionally hosted television series, including Nickelodeon cartoons Ninja Hattori, Perman and a Korean feature film Tidal Wave (2009).

[17] The film has received reviews from leading media outlets including The News Minute,[18] Scroll,[19] Newslaundry,[20] The Quint,[21] Silverscreen.in,[22] Vikatan,[23] Theekathir[24] and Indian Express[25] to name a few.

The film has since been screened in five cities including Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai In January 2021, she conceived, directed and edited a four-part documentary series during COVID lockdown called: Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire made entirely via video conferencing software.

Vaishnavi is a published writer and has written on diverse topics themed under films, feminism and the epoch of social justice community in India.

[27] For other topics related to women's issues, she is a regular freelancing contributor to TheNewsminute,[28] Scroll,[29] The Ladies Finger,[30] Firstpost,[31] The Swaddle,[32] Provoke Magazine,[33] Worldpulse[34] Silverscree.in,[35] Ozy[36] etc.

[40] In November 2017, Vaishnavi was invited as a Springboard Sessions Speaker at Samagra 2017, an annual event organised by the Melton Foundation at the BMS College of Engineering.

The Rotract Club of Women's Christian College, Chennai invited Vaishnavi as a panelist for their event, Stree Suraksha where she opined on "Relationship between media culture and sexual harassment."

Along with Iswarya, a Chennai-based researcher, Vaishnavi participated in discussions at various place and also produced a video stressing on its dangers, asking people to boycott films that glorify stalking and male violence against women.

[42][failed verification] Reproductive rights in India draw in her most recent work, which includes advocating for emergency contraceptive pills to be available over-the-counter in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Vaishnavi put forth her arguments about the need for a recourse that looks into real issues like poverty, rape and a dearth of safe space for women in India, rather than glorify fringe elements that vandalise and murder in the name of Indian culture.

Through this film, Vaishnavi's team hopes to get the attention of policy-makers and force amendments in the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, in order to make the law more potent and practical, instead of the toothless paper-legislation that it is today.

[51][52][53] In the course of one year since its launch, this website has gathered a vast number of popular and influential women working in Indian and world cinema in its members list including Debalina Majumdar, Annupamaa, Iram Parveen Bilal, Revathy S. Varmha and Beena Sarwar.

Along with a group of ground-breaking articles on the subject of cinema and tabooed aspects of society, Vaishnavi has also interviewed artists like Tannishtha Chatterjee, Megha Ramaswamy, Rajshri Deshpande, Anuradha Menon and Nina Paley.