After making her film debut with the 2014 poorly received comedy Fugly, Advani achieved commercial success with the 2016 sports biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, followed by the role of a newly married teacher in the 2018 Netflix film Lust Stories. Subsequently, she played the love interest of the male protagonists in the Telugu political drama Bharat Ane Nenu (2018), one of the highest-grossing Telugu films, and the Hindi romance Kabir Singh (2019), one of the highest-grossing Indian films.