She came to Mumbai in the 1950s as a beauty pageant contestant when she was 15 years old. She became an actress there and made her film debut in "Tonga-wali" (1955). She moved on to hit films such as "Dekh Kabira Roya" (1957), "Sharada" (1957), and "Goonj Uthi Shehnai", for which she earned nomination in Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress category, the only nomination of her career. In 1961, she appeared as Sita, in Babubhai Mistry's "Sampoorna Ramayana", which made her a household name.