Meena Kumari started her career very early in life when she was just six. Her first performance was in the film Leatherface by vijay bhatt where she performed the role of a child artist and started her career as baby Meena.

Meena Kumari's early films were rather insignificant. They include mythologicals like Shri Ganesh Mahima and Veer Ghatotkach etc. But she has been very good and a light hearted performer in these films as opposed to her later films which saw her in serious roles.