In "Haque" (1991), a political drama directed by Harish Bhosle and scripted by Mahesh Bhatt, Kapadia played Varsha B. Singh, an Orthodox Hindu woman who is married to an influential politician and who has a miscarriage following an assault. The story follows Varsha's defiance of her husband after years of subservience when, for political reasons, he refuses to take legal action against the assailants. According to the author Ram Awatar Agnihotri, Kapadia played the character bravely and convincingly. Kapadia starred alongside Amitabh Bachchan in the fantasy "Ajooba", a big-budgeted Indo-Russian co-production that was co-directed by Shashi Kapoor and Gennady Vasilyev. Based on Arabian mythology and set in the fictional Afghan kingdom Baharistan, the film saw her in the role of Rukhsana, a young woman who arrives from India to rescue her father from prison. The critical response to "Ajooba" was mediocre, and it failed to attract viewers in Indian cinemas though was a success in the Soviet Union.