After marrying Sunil Kumar Roy, an Indian diplomat, she chose to retain her maiden name.

[5] His Excellency Sunil Roy died in New York from cancer in 1993, having previously served as Indian Ambassador to Poland, then Mexico, and High Commissioner to Nigeria.

[6] In the early 1960s, she attended film classes in New York where her father was working and created a number of short documentaries after her return to India.

[5] From 1990, she was the President or Jury Member of international film festivals including Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Cannes (Camera d'Or), Las Palmas, Pusan, Singapore, Fajr (Tehran), and Antalya.

The Tripoli Film Festival[16] has named its prize for Best Writing on Cinema as the “Aruna Vasudev Award”.