In 1999, she featured in the romantic drama Raja, which earned her the third Filmfare Best Actress award as well as the Industry Hit film Padayappa. She won several accolades, including her second Filmfare Best Actress award and the Nandi Special Jury Award. Her portrayal of an NRI woman falling prey to the extreme abuse by her father-in-law in the film Anthahpuram (1998) was highly applauded by critics. She achieved further success with films like Pelli Chesukundam, Choodalani Vundi, Dongaata and Arunachalam, the latter being her first venture with Rajinikanth. The success of these films established her as the leading actress of Telugu cinema. In 1996, she featured in the highly successful film Pavitra Bandham and won the Nandi Award for Best Actress. However, she had her career breakthrough with Ammoru (1995), a film which garnered her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu. Between 1993 & 1994, she appeared in several commercially successful Telugu films, notably Rajendrudu Gajendrudu, Mayalodu, Number One and Hello Brother. She received critical acclaim for her role in the latter. The following year, she debuted in Telugu and Tamil with the films Manavarali Pelli and Ponnumani respectively.

She made her film debut through the Kannada film Gandharva (1992). Soundarya was an Indian actress who worked predominantly in Telugu films in addition to Kannada and Tamil films.

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