Kaniha decided to give herself a go at the Tinsel towns. She gave a good account of herself in the 2004 Kannada film Annavaru, a remake of Mani Ratnam’s 1991 Tamil film Thalapathi, stepping into Kannada filmdom, too, where she acted under the stage name Sravanthi, following which she played a neat, cameo role in Cheran’s Autograph, earning critical acclaim. To prove her versatility with all genres of cinema, Kanika then appeared in a comedy oriented role in the commercial film Aethiree along with Madhavan, Sada, which was directed by K. S. Ravikumar and in which she portrayed a naughty Brahmin girl.
