Actor Shashi Kapoor acted with her in several films, their most famous being the superhit film "Jab Jab Phool Khile" (1965). He later said that she was his favorite leading lady. He was grateful to her, because she was a star when she agreed to act with him, when he was an unknown actor. He also felt that Nanda was "extremely gracious and decent" with him, by not making any passes at him, since he was a married man.