Her father is a Tamil Iyer from Palakkad but she was brought up in Karnataka. Pallavi completed her Business Management and Hotel Management and began working with Oberoi Hotel in Bengaluru. Her mother tongue is Tamil. She decided to give up the job and become an actress.

She has worked in several shows for Balaji Telefilms. She was selected for the role of Gayatri in the show Karam Apnaa Apnaa. Thereafter she played the role of Gunn on Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki. She later replaced Arunima Sharma as one the three female leads in the role Role of Rano in Zee TV's Kasamh Se. She played the role of Urvashi Sanghvi in Basera and has worked on other shows including Peehar (as Dr. Sara), Bajega Band Baaja (as Dilpreet), Paap Punya Ka Lekha Jokha, Sanskar, Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat and the TV series Sujata. She worked on Bairi Piya playing the part of Chiggy Bahu and later appeared in Jyoti in the role of Asha.

Pallavi played Rohini Patwardhan in Sapnon Se Bhare Naina and Padmini in Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon. Pallavi quit the show after signing up for a lead role opposite Mammootty in V. K. Prakash directed Malayalam movie Silence. Simultaneously, she also worked in a Subhash Ghai directed movie Kaanchi.^[3] Thereafter, in 2014, she acted as one of the three lead heroines opposite Mohanlal in B. Unnikrishnan directed movie Mr. Fraud.

Films

• Sati
• Parivaar
• Sanskaar
• Ssshhhh...Koi Hai
• Paap Punya Ka Lekha Jokha
• Santaan
• Sujata
• Man Mein Hai Visshwas
• Karam Apnaa Apnaa as Gayatri
• Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki as Gunn / Gunn Krishna Agarwal
• Kasamh Se as Rano Nishikant Dixit/ Rano Sahil Bali / Rano Ranbir Bali (one of three female leads)
• Peehar as Dr. Sara
• Raja Ki Ayegi Baraat as Namki
• Bajega Band Baaja as Dilpreet
• Basera as Urvashi Sanghvi
• Bairi Piya as Chiggy Bahu
• Jyoti as Asha Sisodia
• Sapnon Se Bhare Naina as Rohini Patwardhan
• Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon as Padmini Malik