- Upcoming films of Adah include the Telugu romance flicks Kshanam and Garam.
- She has also stated that she would make a cameo appearance in Harish Shankar's Subramanyam for Sale and her Tamil debut, scheduled to release by late 2015.
- Trying to enter the film industry, Adah auditioned for several roles in Mumbai, but was rejected either because of her curly hair or because the makers felt that she looked too young.
- She eventually landed the lead female role in the 2008 Hindi horror flick 1920 by Vikram Bhatt.
- Her portrayal of a possessed woman was unanimously praised by critics. The Times of India'sNikhat Kazmi commented that she "delivers a consummate performance", while Ashok Nayak from nowrunning.com wrote that she "rocks in her debut with a great performance".
- Other reviewers labelled her performance as "excellent", "(exceptionally) brilliant", and "incredibly convincing".
- The film was a commercial success, too, Bhatt's first box office hit after six years and 10 films, and earned Adah a Best Female Debut nomination at the 54th Filmfare Awards.
- Three years later, she had her next release, Phhir, again a horror film, which saw her collaborating with Vikram Bhatt, who wrote the film, and her 1920 co-star Rajneesh Duggal. Phhir, however, was not as well received as 1920, opening to negative reviews, and failing at the box office, with Adah getting mixed response for her performance.
- While Sujata Chakrabarti wrote that "not even for a minute does she exude the intensity of being a psychic",Sify's Sonia Chopra stated that she was "the only one in the film who can act".
- Her third film, the romantic comedy Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke, released another two years later and was a critical and financial failure.
- 2014 Adah had two releases: Puri Jagannadh's romance film Heart Attack that marked her Telugu debut and Hasee Toh Phasee in Hindi, which released seven days later and featured her in a supporting role.
- She described her character in the former as "vulnerable, yet extremely sexy" and worked for two months on her Telugu diction.
- Adah received positive remarks for her performance in Heart Attack, with The Times of India writing that she "looks like a natural actress and does a decent job" while 123telugu.com felt that she had made a "stunning debut".
- Both films were commercially successful, with Hasee To Phasee ending up as one of the year's highest-grossing Hindi films.
- Her next two films, the Telugu family drama S/O Satyamurthy directed by Trivikram Srinivas and the action flick Rana Vikrama directed by Pavan Wadeyar, her first Kannada project, released on consecutive days in April 2015.
- Both films were financial successes as well, with the former, having collected over 80 crore, emerging one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of all time in spite of mixed reviews.
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