achala became a resident of pune after marrying clifford douglas peters, who had a factory in pune's bhosari industrial estate, named morris electronics, producing small electronics parts such as diodes. the factory was later sold to the piramal group. in an almost filmy turn, sachdev was introduced to peters by yash chopra on the sets of a film in mumbai. peter's first wife had died by then and sachdev herself was a divorcee. they married. peters, a mechanical engineer, had a factory in bhosari and the couple lived in a bungalow in the same area for some time before shifting to hadapsar. after peters died, achala lived alone. five years before her death, she gave away her flat in pune to the janseva foundation, a charitable organization, on the condition that they should take care of her as long as she lived.