She signed with new leading man Rajesh Khanna in the songless suspense thriller Ittefaq (1969), for which she received her first and only nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and also proved to be  successful at the box office.
The movie "Ittefaq" (1969), starring Rajesh Khanna and featuring the actress, was a suspense thriller without songs that led to her first and only Filmfare Award nomination for Best Actress. The film also proved to be commercially successful.