She made her acting debut as a child artiste in the television serial "Tero Parban".Indrani is one of the few actresses Bengali cinema currently prides itself for.
She shared a national award with Rituparna Sengupta in the best actress category in 1998, for the film Dahan in the 42nd National Film Festival of India. She was honoured for her role as Jhinuk, the schoolteacher who takes up the cause of a molested woman she hardly knows in Rituparno Ghosh's "Dahan".But the joy of receiving the national award was dulled ...