Amala Paul after finished her higher school education, She planned leave a year free and join a engineering course. But, She joined a BA Degree in Communicative English in St.Terasa college. She did some modelling related works too. In 2009, Malayalam director Lal Jose offered to her a supporting actress in his film "Neelathamara", who was attracted by Amala Paul's modelling work. After She tried to act in tamil movies and she got a chance.
Amala Paul's first Tamil movie "Vikadakavi" was dropped by production problems. Hereafter, She appeared another Tamil movie "Veerasekaran", which was low-budget and panned by critics and completely unnoticed by Tamil peoples. 