Kalpana Kartik worked as an associate producer for Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963), Jewel Thief (1967), Prem Pujari (1970), Shareef Budmaash (1973), Heera Panna (1973), and Jaaneman (1976). Nau Do Gyarah was her last film as actress. Kalpana's time in Navketan saw four different directors take reign - Guru Dutt, Chetan Anand, S. It was Navketan's first super-success and also the film on whose sets Dev Anand secretly married Kalpana Kartik during a lunch break. She then acted in Taxi Driver, which was the 'coming of age' film of the Navketan banner. Her first film Baazi was a huge success and went on to become a landmark in Indian cinema. Thus, Mona Singha was re-christened Kalpana Kartik and she moved to Bombay (now known as Mumbai).
He convinced her family to allow her to join his fledgling film company, Navketan Films, as a leading lady. He was there with his wife Uma Anand, whose mother is Mona's cousin. Shimla contest and was noticed by Chetan Anand, a film-maker from Bombay.
After the partition, her family moved to Shimla. Her father was a Tehsildar of Batala in Gurdaspur District and she was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. Mona Singha was born in a Punjabi Christian family in Lahore.
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