She first acted with Amitabh Bachchan in “Bansi Birju” (1972). When Amitabh had faced a string of flops and most lead heroines refused to work with him in the Salim-Javed scripted “Zanjeer” (1973), she agreed to step in. The film turned out to be a big hit, creating Amitabh Bachchan’s angry-young-man image.
She retired from films and focused on raising her children, making an exception for Yash Chopra’s “Silsila” (1981), once again opposite her husband.
During the late 1980s, she wrote the story for “Shahenshah” (1988), which starred her husband in the lead.
In 2011, she starred alongside Victor Banerjee and Humayun Faridi in the Bangladeshi film “Meherjaan.” The movie revolves around a love story set against the backdrop of the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities, exploring themes of love, loss, and the impact of historical events on personal lives.