Smita Patil as Najma

Farooq Shaikh as Sarju

Naseeruddin Shah as Salim

Supriya Pathak as Shabnam

Bharat Kapoor as Akhtar Hussain

Sulabha Deshpande as Shabnam's Mother

Javed Khan as

Yunus Parvez as

Tabu as

Aanjjan Srivastav as Keshavlal

B.L. Chopra as

Rita Rani Kaul as

Shaukat Azmi as

Vijay Dutt as

Bina Shyam as

Masood Javed as

Rashmi Seth as

Syed Moizuddin as

Qaisar Kamal as

Neesha Singh as