Adah Sharma broke into the Hindi film industry with the horror film 1920. For her portrayal of Lisa Singh Rathod who is a posessed woman, Adah received a Filmfare nomination for Best Female Debut. She then starred in Girish Dhamija`s Phhir (2011), Jyotin Goel`s Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke (2013), and Vinil Mathew`s Hasee Toh Phasee. In 2014, Sharma ventured down South to make her Telugu debut with romantic comedy drama Heart Attack. She further established herself in the South Indian industry with movies such as S/O Satyamurthy (2015), Rana Vikrama (2015), Subramanyam For Sale (2015), Garam (2016), and Kshanam (2016).