* Amitabh Bachchan – Nariman
* Shabana Azmi – Saeeda Bai
* K. K. Raina – Lala Ram Lal
* Ritu Chaudhry Seth – Manju Dayal
* Aakash Khurana – Hari
* Victor Banerjee – Dr. Aziz
* Kabir Bedi – Nawab Saadat Ali Khan
* Vijayata Pandit – Ratna Somani
* Vinod Kapoor – Mahesh Kapoor
* Shebnem Kim-Aslanoğlu – Saeeda Bai (fiatal)