Her most memorable roles were as Balraj Sahni's wife in Waqt (1965) and Kajol's grandmother in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995).

[2] However, her most noted role remains as Balraj Sahani's wife in Waqt (1965), wherein the hit song Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen was picturised on her.

[4][5] In an almost filmy turn, Sachdev was introduced to Peters by Yash Chopra on the sets of a film in Mumbai.

Peters, a mechanical engineer, had a factory in Bhosari and the couple lived in a bungalow in the same area for some time before shifting to Hadapsar.

Five years before her death, she gave away her flat in Pune to the Janseva Foundation, a charitable organization, on the condition that they should take care of her as long as she lived.