

She played the role of Sameera's mother Sapna in Chhoona Hai Aasmaan and Bhaskar's mother in the Sony Entertainment Television serial Bhaskar Bharti.

She went on to play leading roles in several Telugu films. In 2000, she played the role of ACP Ratna, a daring police officer in the comedy serial Raju Raja Rajasaab on Sahara TV. When her journalist character Geeta Vishwas was written out of the series, fan protests prompted the producers to bring her back. The show, as well as her character, got high acclaim and was considered her breakthrough role. She subsequently appeared in Barsaat Ki Raat, Ladlaa, Maidan-E-Jung, Bambai Ka Babu, Daanveer and Oru Mutham Manimutham (a 1997 Malayalam film with actor Mukesh).įrom 1998 to 2005, she played the female lead Geeta Vishwas in the superhero series Shaktimaan on Doordarshan. However, while vacationing in Mumbai, she had the opportunity to appear in the Ramsay Brothers' horror film Veerana and decided to pursue acting as a profession. Īs a child she moved to Hyderabad where she decided to become a scientist. She is currently a born again Christian believer who is more into a relationship with God not religion. Raised as a Hindu, she converted to Christianity in the early 1990s. Her father is a Vaishnav Hindu (the reason she took the screen name Vaishnavi), while her mother is Christian.
