Anwesshaa's first breakthrough in Bollywood was in Golmaal Returns for Pritam Chakraborty at the age of 14. Films like I am 24, Raanjhanaa, Revolver Rani, love u soniyo, Panchlait, Dangerous Ishq, I am Banni, Kaanchi, Sita Ramam, Prem Ratan Dhan payo, Expose, Gurudakshina, Do lafzon ki kahani, ye kaisa Tigdam, Bansuri, I love Desi, Illaka kishoreganj, etc led her towards the silver screen. Among Indian regional languages, she has voiced some wonderful film and non-film songs in Bangla, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri. Her playbacks are for around 500 movies across all languages till date. She has received honours like Filmfare Award (East), Mirchi Music Award (Bangla and South), Tele Cine Award, Tele Samman, Big Music Award, Women Entertainers Award, Star Parivar Award, Chitrapat Padarpan Puraskar (Marathi non-film),Gujarat Government Award (For gujarati film song), Academia Award (from Los Angeles, USA for independent song), etc. She successfully completed two Bangla films as a Composer songwriter and spread her wings towards the independent music zone. One of her singles in 2020 'Balcony' released during the lockdown got featured on Best of Indian music. Sunidhi Chauhan, Javed Ali, Abhishek Ray, Abhay Jodhpurkar and many others have rendered her compositions.