Mishti's real name is Indrani Chakraborty who is not a newcomer in film industry. Filmmaker Subhash Ghai, who often renames the female leads of his films with 'M' gave her name Mishti as he chooses the alphabet for his actresses because it symbolises mother. Ghai said " M factor is the mother. A woman is a mother. For me M doesn't connote money or movie." Indrani has already worked in many regional films as well as done a cameo in a Hindi film titled Strings of Passion. She made her debut in Sanghamitra Chaudhuri's Bengali movie Bidehir Khonje Rabindranath. In another Bengali film Porichoi, Indrani shared the screen with Bengali superstar Prasenjit Chatterjee.