The release of "Maarg", her second project under Mahesh Bhatt's direction, was delayed for several years before its straight-to-video release in late 1992. The film is about power politics within an ashram and features Kapadia as Uma, who works as a prostitute by choice. The critic Iqbal Masood considered it "a powerful satire" with "excellent performances". According to Bhatt, Kapadia's role was so intense it left her close to a breakdown after filming ended. She next played Barkha, a single woman who abandons her newly-born, out-of-wedlock daughter, in Hema Malini's directorial debut "Dil Aashna Hai" (1992). In Shashilal K. Nair's crime drama "Angaar" (1992), Kapadia played Mili, a homeless orphan who is collected by an unemployed man (Jackie Shroff). "Angaar", and Kapadia's performance in it, received positive reviews from critics but it was financially unsuccessful. Meena Iyer of "The Times of India", who called it "one of the most engaging mafia films to have come out of Bollywood", attributed the film's limited audience to its subject matter.