commercial success. Mitra eschewed the lead in Dupur Thakurpo: Season 2. Mitra featured as 'Pori pishi' in Rainbow Jelly (2018), a film by Soukarya Ghosal. Her performance in the film won her critical favour. She featured in Anshumaan Banerjee's Baro Second (2020) where she played Srijita alongside Silajit portraying Debanjan, Srijita's husband and the male protagonist. Her directorial venture is Bitter Half. She will be seen in The Inside Job, a film directed by Shieladitya Moulik. She featured in Nirbhaya. Sreelekha starred in Aditya Vikram Sengupta's third feature film, Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, as Ela, the protagonist of the film. She plays a bereaved mother who wants a separation from her husband and struggles to have a separate house for herself. To fit in the shoe of the character, Sengupta never approved her to wear any makeup. The film had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Mid-Day considered the film one of the 20 best Indian films of 2021. Of her performance in the film, Anupama Chopra writes, "Sreelekha plays Ela without a trace of vanity. Her circumstances might be pathetic but she certainly isn't. Instead, Aditya and Gokhan imbue her life with poetry." For her performance, she got overwhelmingly positive reviews. The role earned her an award in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category at the New York Indian Film Festival, 2022. Her directorial venture Ebong Chaad won the Best Short Film award at the Colaj Bengaluru Bengali Film Festival, 2022 and She was awarded in the Best Director — Short Film category. Mitra, then, featured in Raaj Mukherjee's Bengali dramafilm Tritiyo Purush (2022). In media Let's Expose Face It (2020 vlog) On 17 June 2020, Mitra uploaded a vlog Let's Expose Face It on her YouTube channel Aami Sreelekha claiming that she never had a significant elevation in her career even after the remarkable success of Hothat Brishti (1998) since she never reciprocated to the love proposal of Prosenjit Chatterjee who then had a monopolistic foothold in Bengali cinema. She said that Rituparna Sengupta rode the crest of her career so easily as she had a love affair with Chatterjee in the late 1990s. The vlog stirred Media. Chatterjee never responded to her statement. Sengupta opened up that she had not worked with Chatterjee since 2001 until 2015 but had managed to last in the Bengali film industry. In the