Patel then moved to India planning to work in Bollywood. She got an offer from actor and filmmaker Dev Anand, who was a friend of her father, to act in his film Beauty Queen, but it was shelved. made her film debut in the 2010 Indian Telugu language film, Puli, playing the lead female role. this fil was the biggest film launch pad starring the biggest super star of south Pawan Kalyan and directed by so surya with a huge technical team of Ar Rahman, binod pradhan and Ahmed Khan. The film was a critical and financial failure and she moved to the Kannada film industry. Patel had also got offered Hollywood actor-director Steven Seagal's film and had also not materialised. Her next three releases were Kannada films: Narasimha, for which she was nominated for SIIMA Award for Best Female Debutant, Dakota Picture and Varadhanayaka, a remake of the Telugu film Lakshyam (2007). Although Narasimha and Varadanayaka were successful at the box office, she said that these films "were unsatisfying for me as an actress". 2013 she was seen in her second Telugu film Om 3D too, which she called "the most satisfying so far". She had stated in 2012 that she would make her Malayalam debut in Newsmaker opposite Mammootty, playing a reporter. She was also reported to have been signed for Rosshan Andrrews' Malayalam film Mumbai police with prithviraj. While the former did not materialize, the latter film did not feature her.