She then appeared in "Ghayal" alongside Sunny Deol. This film started her long association with Rajkumar Santoshi."Ghayal" was the highest-grossing film of the 1990s. In 1991, she appeared opposite Amitabh Bachchan in "Akayla", directed by Ramesh Sippy; despite being well-promoted, the film flopped at the box office. Her on-screen pairing with Vinod Khanna was widely appreciated, and the pair starred in such successful films as "Satyamev Jayate", "Mahaadev", "Jurm", "Humshakal", and "Police Aur Mujrim". She acted in the successful family drama "Ghar Parivar" in 1991, with Rajesh Khanna and Rishi Kapoor as her co-stars.