Having made her Tamil debut with ace director Mani Ratam's Bombay, she portrayed the character of Shaila Banu. A couple of hours ago, she took it to her social media and uploaded a video song from Bombay, Kannalane, sung by K.S. Chitra which has been composed by the Oscar Nayagan AR Rahman. She had also revealed in the caption that it was her all time favorite film.

The video shared by Manisha Koirala had the caption "My all time fav #film #Bombay by genius #maniratnam sir and music by maestro @arrahman and of course fabulous Dop @dirrajivmenon blessed to get opportunity to work with such a brilliant team !! And how can I not mention my fav co star #arwindswamy .. he is someone I can rely on blindly such a gem !!!"

Manisha Koirala was lastly seen playing Nargis, Sanjay Dutt's mother in Rajkumar Hirani's biopic, Sanju that featured Ranbir Kapoor in the titular role. Sanju had an ensemble cast that featured Paresh Rawal, Vicky Kaushal, Dia Mirza, Sonam Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Jim Sarbh. The movie brought a humungous profit to the makers of the film.