Following an eight-year sabbatical, she directed the critically acclaimed Talvar (2015), which earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Director, which was moderate success at the box office.

[7] She also directed a short film Pooranmasi for Sanjay Gupta's anthology Dus Kahaniyaan, starring Amrita Singh.

In 2015, Meghna directed the drama thriller Talvar,[8] written by Vishal Bharadwaj and based on the 2008 Noida double murder case.

It received high critical acclaim upon release, and earned Gulzar her first nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Director.

Meghna has been accused of cheating and ghosting by author Harinder Sikka, who wrote Calling Sehmat which was later adapted to a film directed by her named, Raazi.

According to him, after securing the rights to his book, Meghna made significant changes in the story, especially at the end, and take a pro-pakistan stance in the film without his approval.

He also accused that her father, Gulzar, of calling Penguin publishers and pushed them to delay the launch of Harinder's book by two months “so that Meghna received all the attention”, and also pressured Jaipur Literature Festival to remove him from speaking about the work.