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Dear Saurabh,
With no prior work experience (I hope you have done internships in your graduation, but it doesn't count as work experience), it's hard to join not just finance sector but other sectors also. The reason is, the 'core' finance is much or data and technology oriented. A company cannot take the risk to hire the absolute fresher to appoint him on such a sensitive position. It's always costly for a company to train an employee, absorbs his mistakes and give another chance, hence company avoid fresher for a certain position. However, entry-level jobs may be possible for an account, junior clerk, etc., but not for core finance. Secondly, as I said, it is difficult but not impossible. If you ask the employer of any big financial company, that is why they don't recruit fresher for big positions the straight answer would be "Why would we take the risk?" So, Saurabh! If you are able to convince the employer through your work portfolio, surely you will have strong point to ask for a job in big Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, etc (you will learn a lot on these companies). Try to do as many relevant internships, Learn Data Analyst (Statistical Modelling, MS Excel-DAX, R/Python, Data Visualization & Minning, SQL, etc.) concepts which are applicable in Finance (LBO, DCF, TEV, Credit Risk Management, ALM, VaR, etc). Show the work samples in your resume, and surely you will get success.