She debuted in 1991 with a film titled Sam and Me. But she is perhaps best known for her trilogy Fire, Earth and Water. The first of the three nearly shook the entire country because of its controversial content and certain scenes and dialogues that seemingly hurt religious sentiment. That did not deter her from going on to deal with another controversial topic, the partition of India with 1947: Earth which had Aamir Khan and Nandita Das in the lead which missed making it to the final round at the Oscars. But she did get there with Water which had to be filmed in Canada because of problems in India. So India’s loss became Canada’s gain.