She played the title role in L.V. Prasad's Chhoti Bahen (1959). The film was a big hit, making her a star. In this commercially successful 1959 film, Nanda Karnataki played the blind younger sister looked after by two elder brothers, played by Balraj Sahni and Rehman. She then played lead roles, such as one of Dev Anand's heroines in Hum Dono (1961) and Teen Deviyan. Both films were acclaimed as hits. She was the heroine in B.R. Chopra's Kanoon (1960), a film with no songs, which was then rare.
Nanda won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for Aanchal (1960), her first and only win at the Filmfare Awards. She was paired with Raj Kapoor in Aashiq (1962) and she worked with Rajendra Kumar in three films - Toofan Aur Diya (1956), Dhool Ka Phool (1961), and Kanoon (1960). She had quoted in one of her interviews: "Many of my great performances were in films that failed or did average business, like Usne Kaha Tha, Char Diwari, Nartaki, and Aaj Aur Kal."
In 1965, while filming in Kashmir for Jab Jab Phool Khile, director Suraj Prakash recalled that a Maharashtrian lieutenant colonel had been smitten by Nanda and had asked him to forward his marriage proposal to her mother. In the end, nothing came of it. Nanda's brothers brought home many suitors for her, but she turned them all down.
In 1992, a middle-aged Nanda became engaged to director Manmohan Desai at the urging of Waheeda Rehman. But soon he died after falling from the terrace of his rented flat in Girgaon, just a year after her mother died of cancer. According to reports, the railing he was leaning on collapsed. Nanda remained unmarried. She is survived by her nephew Swastik Karnatki and great-nephew Karan Gurbaxani who are both directors in Mumbai.
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