Shakila got into the film world as a sex bomb she was 15. Shakila's father got her into Malayalam films as her family was facing financial trauma.

Shakila made her entry into the film industry through the Tamil movie "Playgirls". This movie was not an out and out sex movie and shakila played a character of supporting actress. Shakila became known to every one as a sexy girl after the movie "Kinarathumbikal" which was a big hit. Now she is 28 years old but has acted in more than 30 movies and most of them are sex movies. Her nick names in the industry are "Cyclone", "Lady Lal" because of her because of her devastating effect on the minds of youth. Apart from being a sex queen, she says she likes to do comedy roles and now she is getting many offers from Telugu and filmdom.

As an actress she desires to act in movies with Mohanlal and Mamooty and also work with directors like Fazil. But she says that can never happen as for producers and directors she is only a sex symbol who can be used only to sell their films. Shakila did her first kannada movie Indrajith Lankesh's fil m " Monalisa " with her novel image as a comedian.