Considered as one of the best actresses of her generation and played an active role helping the parallel cinema grow. Active feminist, who got criticized by female organizations for marrying Raj Babbar and breaking his previous marriage. Was a news reader on Doordarshan before acting career.

1974 - 1986

Supposed to have the premonition that something bad might happen to Amitabh, just the night before he had the fatal accident on the sets of Coolie (1983).