In her mid-40's, she made a comeback into films, two decades after her debut, with Basu Bhattacharya's "Uski Kahani" (1966), for which she won the Bengal Journalists Association Award. She made four films in the 1960s, including Hrishikesh Mukherjee's classic "Satyakam" (1969), "Saat Hindustani" (1969), starring Amitabh Bachchan in his debut role and the Merchant Ivory Productions, "The Guru" (1969). By the 1970s, she had become a favourite of art and commercial films alike, playing powerful motherly and grandmotherly roles. It was in these films that she became recognised as the Grand-Old-Mother of Hindi films.