In 2024, she expanded her media presence as a contestant on the comedy-cooking show Top Cooku Dupe Cooku Evolving Roles and Recent Work

: A neo-noir gangster film that received universal critical praise and influenced modern Tamil filmmaking. Commercial Successes : She starred alongside major stars in hits like (with Silambarasan) and (with Vijay). Expansion into Television & Streaming

Critics, however, have pointed out that her mainstream success has come within the confines of the very system she critiques. Some argue that her version of “accessible realism” still leans heavily on upper-caste, upper-class, English-speaking protagonists. Agarwal’s response has been pragmatic: “You change the system by winning inside it first. Then you expand the definition of who gets to be a hero.”

Sonia Agarwal: Shaping the Landscape of Modern Entertainment Content and Popular Media