Agarwal was born on March 5, 1984, in
New Jersey to
Gujarati parents. Her younger sister Aditi Agarwal is also an actress in the Telugu film industry. At around 14 years of age, actor
Suniel Shetty spotted her and invited her to dance on stage in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. After the performance, he asked her father to encourage her to take up acting in
Bollywood. At the age of 16 she made her film debut in
Paagalpan (2001). Agarwal made her Telugu film debut in
Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (2001) with actor
Venkatesh. She was one of the few non-
Telugu speaking actresses to work with noted Indian film stars
Chiranjeevi,
Nandamuri Balakrishna,
Nagarjuna,
Venkatesh,
Rajashekar,
Prabhas,
Mahesh Babu,
Ravi Teja,
Srikanth,
Jr NTR,
Uday Kiran,
Tarun, and
Venu. She ventured into
Tamil films also, through
Winner (2003) and
Bambara Kannaley (2005). In Winner, she was initially cast as the female lead. But due to her unavailability in the second shooting schedule, she was eventually replaced by
Kiran Rathod, owing to her popularity after the Tamil film
Gemini (2002). She took up popular Telugu remakes of
Jyothika's blockbuster Tamil films like
Dhool (
Veede) and
Priyamaana Thozhi (
Vasantham) In 2005, media reported that Agarwal had attempted suicide over the failure of a romantic relationship with a co-star. In 2006, following an accident at home, she was hospitalized with internal head injuries at
Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills,
Hyderabad and put on ventilator support. In 2007, Agarwal married a software engineer; the couple divorced in 2009. == Death ==