Bibbo was a music composer, singer, and film actress. She became the first female music composer of Indian cinema by composing music for Adal-e-Jahangir (1934). Bibbo was also referred to as one of the most important females of Indian cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. She has acted in films like Manmohan (1936), Jagirdar (1937), Gramophone (1938), Dynamite (1938), Watan (1938), Teen Sau Din Ke Baad (1938), Ladies Only (1939) and Sneh Bandhan (1940). In the 1930s, she married director Khalil Sardar, who directed her in Adal-e-Jahangir. Following the India-Pakistan partition, she moved to Lahore with her family and continued her acting career there.