 She is best known for her comic role as Freni Sethna, the die-hard Amitabh Bachchan fan in Basu Chatterjee's "Khatta Meetha" (1978).After she lost some 50 kg, her film roles dwindled and later in 1993, she started an acting school named after her father, 'Ashok Kumar's Academy of Dramatic Arts' in Mumbai, where she also took film appreciation classes.Years later, she appeared in Emraan Hashmi starrer, "Aashiq Banaya Aapne" (2005).