Emerging from a bohemian household in Hyderabad, she entered the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, where she graduated with the gold medal for acting. While still a student she was cast in Khwaja Ahmad Abbas’s Faslah and Kanti Lal Rathore’s Parinay, and her official screen debut arrived with Ankur (1974), quickly establishing her as a leading figure in the parallel-cinema movement th…
