Sai Pallavi

Sai Pallavi appeared in uncredited roles as a child actress in Kasthooriman (2003) and Dhaam Dhoom (2008). In 2014, while she was studying in Tbilisi, Georgia, film-director Alphonse Putharen offered her the role of Malar in his film Premam. She shot the film over the holidays and, after the shooting finished, returned to her studies. She went on to win several "Best Female Debut" awards that year, including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. In late 2015, she took a month break from her studies to act in her second movie, Kali, which released in March 2016. She portrayed Anjali, a young wife who must deal with her husband's extreme anger issues, earning a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam.

 2017 marked her debut in Telugu with Sekhar Kammula's Fidaa, in the role of Bhanumathi, a fiesty village girl from Telangana. Her next project with director A. L. Vijay was Diya, which is a Tamil-Telugu bilingual film. Later, she starred in the Tamil movie Maari 2, a sequel to Maari, opposite Dhanush, directed by Balaji Mohan. A song from the movie, Rowdy Baby, is the highest viewed song in YouTube from South India. The movie was also dubbed into Malayalam and aired in Asianet. Pallavi started shooting in February 2018 for the film Padi Padi Leche Manasu with Sharwanand., which under performed at the box office. In December. several news outlets reported that Sai Pallavi refused to accept her full remuneration for the movie, expressing solidarity with the producers for the failure of the movie. In 2019, Pallavi portrayed an autistic girl in the psychological thriller Athiran opposite Fahadh Faasil. In 2020, she was recognised by Forbes magazine as India's 30 under 30. She was the only person from film industry in that list.

Sai Pallavi said in an interview that though she was not a trained dancer, she always wanted to be like her mother in dancing. She participated in several cultural events at school, gaining popularity as a dancer. Due to her penchant for dance, which was supported by her mother, she participated in the dance reality show Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhu Deva on Vijay TV in 2008, and finalist in Dhee Ultimate Dance Show (D4) on ETV in 2009.