After carving a name for herself in the Telugu hit Santhosham, Shriya made her debut in Kollywood only after three years after she made her debut in Telugu. Mazhai, a remake of Telugu hit Varsham, introduced a new dancing queen to Tamil cinema. Her graceful and neutral dancing became the talking point of Kollywood. A trained Kathak dancer in her early years, Shriya also learnt Kathakkali later. Shriya, concentrated on a lot of Telugu movies, before she became the cynosure of everybody's eyes with a show of amazing dance varieties in Shivaji. ‘Vaaji Vaaji’, ‘Sahana’ and ‘Athiradi’ just provided the right palette for Shriya to showcase her talents. Called by many as the best dancer in the industry, Shriya proved that she is good at western style of dancing too in Kandasamy.