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Her next film, the action flick Billa, a remake of the 2007 Tamil namesake, itself a remake of the 1978 Hindi film Don, featured Shetty in a role contrary to that in Arundati. She went on to win the Nandi Special Jury Award and the Filmfare Best Actress Award among other accolades. Sify noted that she was "at her best with great performance". Idlebrain's Jeevi wrote that she was "simply amazing in two roles" and that she did "exceptionally well with subtle yet impact creating performance", while Rediff claimed that she was "brilliant and breathtaking in parts", labelling Arundhati as "totally Anushka's film". Critics heaped praise on Anushka for her performance. It was a critical as well as commercial success.

In this heroine-centric film, she essayed two roles for the first time. In 2009, Shetty first starred in the blockbuster hit Arundhati. She next appeared in the film Souryam with Gopichand which became a box office hit. Her subsequent releases Swagatam alongside Jagapati Babu and Bhumika Chawla and Baladur opposite Ravi Teja garnered poor reviews and box office returns. Okka Magaadu was the first release, in which she played one of three female leads. The former, in particular, succeeded at the box office. Her first release in 2007 was Lakshyam, after which she starred in Raghava Lawrence's Don opposite Nagarjuna again. Murugadoss' directorial debut in Telugu, Stalin.

Later that year, she made a special appearance in A. She next had starred in the film Astram, a remake of the 1999 Hindi film Sarfarosh, following which she debuted in the Tamil film industry, acting in the Sundar C.-directed action flick Rendu, sharing screen space with R. The film went on to become very successful and got her much recognition, that eventually made her very popular in Andhra Pradesh. Rajamouli's Vikramarkudu opposite Raviteja, in which she portrayed the character Neeraja Goswami. In 2006, she had four releases, the first being S. The same year, she acted in another film Mahanandi, which was an unsuccessful venture. Shetty made her acting debut in Puri Jagannath's 2005 Telugu film Super alongside Akkineni Nagarjuna.