Nissar Allana though a doctor by profession,
practices stage design and lighting design and has worked in most of her plays, he is also the Director of Dramatic Art and Design Academy(DADA), which they founded in 2000 in Delhi.
Her collaboration with her husband, Nissar Allana started in 1971,
when she was rehearsing her first solo play as a director, Brecht's A Man's a Man at St. Xavier's College, Bombay(now Mumbai), that is when Nissar then studying medicine though impressed by Brecht and Casper Neher(Austrian-German scenographer), volunteered to do the sets.