Shome went to Delhi's
Lady Shri Ram College and joined
Arvind Gaur's Asmita theatre group. She moved to
New York in the autumn of 2004 for a master's program in educational theatre at
New York University, where she remained until visiting
Mumbai on holiday in February 2008. Thereafter, she took up residence in Mumbai and after completing some outstanding projects in New York, she returned to India in May 2008. In New York, she also taught theatre to murder convicts at a high security US prison. She made her film debut as Alice in
Mira Nair's feature film
Monsoon Wedding, and played Deepa in
Shadows of Time (
Schatten der Zeit), directed by
Florian Gallenberger. She played a nun in the
Australian film
The Waiting City by
Claire McCarthy. She also worked in
Qaushiq Mukherjee's
Tasher Desh. She played Mrs. Ahmadi in the
Hindi political thriller film
Shanghai directed by
Dibakar Banerjee. About her performance in
Shanghai, Rediff wrote "Shome created one of this year's most heartbreaking performances in a Hindi film". Her other roles have included Lara in
Little Box of Sweets (directed by Meneka Das), Jaya in
Long After (short film, directed by
Afia Nathaniel) and Miraal in
Butterfly (directed by Tanuj Chopra). Her performance as a girl who is raised as a boy in
Qissa won her the best actress title in the New Horizons Competition of the seventh
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF). She shared the title with Norwegian actress
Julia Wildschutt. ==Personal life==