sentences:  In films such as "Jurmana", her name is credited ahead of the heroes in the credits of the film.She at the peak of her career as heroine, surprised everyone by agreeing to play strong characters as sister-in-law to Rajesh Khanna in "Aanchal" (1980), which was followed by playing sister-in-law to Shashi Kapoor in "Shaan" (1980), mother to Amitabh in "Shakti" (1982), sister-in-law to Mithun Chakraborty in "Dhuan" and mother to Rishi Kapoor in "Yeh Vaada Raha" (1982).Towards the late 1980s and 1990s she played strong character roles as the elderly mother or a woman of principles in commercially successful films such as "Ram Lakhan" (1989), "Anari" (1993), "Baazigar" (1993), "Khalnayak" (1993), "Karan Arjun" (1995), "Border" (1997), "Soldier" (1998), "" (2001) and "Dil Ka Rishta" (2002).