Thus, while her own film career was hardly scintillating, Rattan Bai was to be known as the matriarch of a large and celebrated film family which includes Shobhna Samarth, Nalini Jaywant, Nutan, Tanuja, Mohnish Behl, Kajol, as also Shomu Mukherjee (husband of Tanuja) and Ajay Devgan (husband of Kajol).