 Mitra made her big screen debut with Bimal Dey's Bengali film "Sei Raat" (1996).Her breakthrough role came with Basu Chatterjee's "Hothat Brishti" (1998) which was a major success at the box office.Despite the success of the film, Mitra never attained any significant elevation in her career which she claimed to be an undesirable consequence of Nepotism in Bangali cinema.