After Roy separated from Chatterjee, she refused to play any female lead opposite the actor. Which in turn leaves an ample scope to her two strong rivals Rituparna Sengupta and Satabdi Roy who became choices opposite Chatterjee in most of his films in late 1990s. In 1997, Roy had two releases opposite Chiranjit Chakraborty Prabhat Roy's "Jiban Jouban" and Dulal Bhowmik's "Yoddha" both of which were commercially successful. She portrayed the role of Sarada Devi in "Swami Vivekananda" (1998). She appeared in Tapan Sinha's Bengali film "Ajab Ganyer Ajab Katha" (1998), under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films. She appeared in a cameo role in Tapan Sinha's Hindi film "Daughters of This Century" (1999). In 1999, she appeared in Rituparno Ghosh's "Asukh", landing the character of Rohini Choudhury, an actress who is suspicious by nature and begins to suspect her father to be an HIV positive due to some illegitimate relation she is not aware of.