She is widely remembered for her roles in Aradhana (1969), Paras (1971), Henna (1991) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), the last three of which garnered the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She became a household name after portraying motherly roles and strong female characters in the 1990s and the early 2000s.

She won the Best Actress Award at the 2012 Harlem International Film Festival for her role in A Gran Plan (2012).

Farida Jalal, who was born on 14 March 1949 in Mumbai,[3] started her career in the 1960s when she won the United Film Producers Talent Hunt sponsored by Filmfare in 1965.

She, along with Rajesh Khanna was chosen as a finalist and both were presented on stage as winners at the Filmfare Awards function.

I remember during those days each and every actor was copying Dilip Saab whether it was Dharmendra, Jeetendra, or Manoj Kumar.

Then I got my second award for Majboor, a film written by Salimbhai and Javedbhai where Bachchan Saab played my brother.

In 2005, she co-hosted the 50th Filmfare Awards alongside Saif Ali Khan and Sonali Bendre, in Mumbai.

Jalal was married to actor Tabrez Barmavar, who hailed from Bhatkal, Karnataka.

She met her husband on the sets of Jeevan Rekha and fell in love in the course of the film and got married in November 1978.