[5] Orujova was, at the age of 19, noticed while on a walk in Baku by film director Ismail Idayatzadeh [az] and playwright Jafar Jabbarly.

Sevil is about themes such as freedom and equality, the struggle for women's rights, and the disappearance of the old world and its traditional customs;[1] the main character in the film was an Azerbaijani girl named Sevil, who is kicked out by her husband Balash but takes fate in her own hands, studies in Moscow and takes off her hijab as a statement of liberation and emancipation.

[4][7] Though Orujova's father at first forbade her from appearing in the film, he was convinced after repeated meetings with Idayatzadeh and Jabbarly.

[5] Orujova's performance as a liberated young woman had a large impact on the evolving women's rights movements in the country.

[2] In 1972[5] Orujova became a professor and the director of the Institute of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR.

[2] As a scientist, Orujova represented chemistry in Azerbaijan internationally and held talks in countries such as Portugal, Hungary, Germany and Canada.

[1][6] Orujova's husband, Movsum Ismayilzade, was arrested by the Bolsheviks as an enemy of the people in 1937 and only narrowly avoided execution.

[5] After having been forced into exile for several years, Ismayilzade was allowed to return to Azerbaijan but he was forbidden from seeing Orujova and from living in Baku.

[1] On 7 October 2009 a memorial evening was hosted in Orujova's honor at the Museum Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth.