After Do Sitare (1951) the pair did not share the screen again. Instead he sought to establish himself as a star in his own right by setting up the production company, Navketan. Among its first films was the thriller Baazi (1951), with Kalpana Kartik playing the female lead. Once again Anand found himself one half of a couple adored by audiences, and the pair reprised the success of Baazi throughout the Fifties in films such as Aandhiyan (1952) and Nau Do Gyarah (1957). By then, however, the screen couple had become man and wife in real life; following the marriage Kalpana Kartik began to wind down her film career.