Rai garnered critical appreciation for portraying a passionate artist in the Tamil romance film "Kandukondain Kandukondain" (2000), Tagore's heroine, Binodini, in the Bengali film "Chokher Bali" (2003), a depressed woman in the drama "Raincoat" (2004), Kiranjit Ahluwalia in the British drama film "Provoked" (2006), and a nurse in the drama "Guzaarish" (2010). Rai's greatest commercial successes have been the romance "Mohabbatein" (2000), the adventure film "Dhoom 2" (2006), the historical romance "Guru" (2007) and "Jodhaa Akbar" (2008), the science fiction film "Enthiran" (2010), and the romantic drama "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" (2016).