She started her career by assisting her partner producer/director Sultan Ahmed from 1987 until his death in 2002.
[1] Mrs. Sultan controlled all the pre-production, outlays, shooting schedule and post production for the movie Daata starring Mithun Chakraborty and Padmini Kolhapure and later the film Jai Vikraanta starring Sanjay Dutt, Zeba Bakhtiar and Amrish Puri.
She was elected as the EC Member of IMPPA (Indian Motion Pictures Producers' Association) from 2002- 2008.
She was a treasurer and convenor and handled many sensitive issues of the industry in IMPPA.
[3] In 2016, she started to work on a sequel to Mughal-e-Azam, apparently using the script written by her husband.