Padda began her acting career with a brief role in
Salaam Venky (2022), a drama about
euthanasia in which she played the love interest of
Vishal Jethwa's character.
The Hindu's Shilpa Nair was appreciative of her appearance in the film. In 2024, Padda had her first lead role in
Nitya Mehra's
Amazon Prime Video series ''
Big Girls Don't Cry'', a coming-of-age drama centred around a friend group who attend a boarding school. She played Roohi, a member of the group struggling to cope with the strained relationship between her parents. Padda wrote, composed and sang an original track for the series, titled "Masoom". Despite mixed reception towards the series overall, the performances of the ensemble were positively received by critics. Padda has since credited Mehra for her support when she moved from Delhi to Mumbai to pursue a career in acting. Suri was initially impressed by Padda's self-tape audition, but found her first formal audition lacking in authenticity. However, he was persuaded by Panday to give her a second opportunity after which she was ultimately cast as Vaani, an aspiring lyricist diagnosed with
early-onset Alzheimer's, who forms a relationship with an emerging singer (played by Panday). In a positive review of the film,
The Hollywood Reporter's Rahul Desai commended Padda for bringing "a kind of literary sheen to a woman that might have easily been reduced to a coming-of-age device in someone else's journey" and praised the chemistry between her and Panday.
Saiyaara set several box-office records upon its release, grossing over to emerge as the year's
fourth highest-grossing Indian film. Padda will reunite with Nitya Mehra for the courtroom drama
Nyaya, starring
Fatima Sana Shaikh. She will also star as the title character in
Shakti Shalini, as part of the
Maddock Horror Comedy Universe which will begin filming March 2026. == In the media ==