Emerging from a Mumbai family with Mangalorean and Gujarati heritage, she trained in Bharatanatyam and first appeared on a Gujarati stage at ten, later honing her craft in college theatre. After early television work in the mid-1990s, a supporting turn in the crime drama Satya earned her a Filmfare Critics Award, and she soon shifted focus to film with the Gujarati drama Dariya Chhoru. Subsequent…