Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Saadat Hasan Manto

Rasika Dugal as Safia

Tahir Raj Bhasin as Sunder Shyam

Feryna Wazheir as Nargis

Javed Akhtar as Abid Ali Abid

Chandan Roy Sanyal as Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi

Rishi Kapoor as Film Producer

Inaamulhaq as Hamid

Ranvir Shorey as Ishar Singh

Rajshri Deshpande as Ismat Chugtai

Ila Arun as Jaddanbai

Divya Dutta as Kulwant Kaur

Paresh Rawal as Pimp

Tillotama Shome as Prostitute

Shashank Arora as Shaad Amritsari

Bhanu Uday as Ashok Kumar

Sadat Pervez as Krishan Chandar

Nazma Ali Shaikh as Sarita

Ashwini Giri as Sarita's mother

Purab Kohli as Kifaayat

Swanand Kirkire as Shahab

Chittaranjan Tripathy as Anwar

Vihaan Das Maskara as Boy on the bar

Nishith Dadhich as Director

Sunil Kamath as Cameraman

Priyanka Misal as Princess

Vedieka Dutt as Auditioning Girl 1

Mruga Umrania as Auditioning Girl 2

Jean-Pierre Le Calvez as Englishman at counter

Lacey Haines as English woman at station

Zorawar Shukla as Anglo-Indian Passenger

Rusi Mistry as Irani Cafe Owner

Takesh Singh as Rajindar Singh Bedi

Sadat Shamsi as Krishan Chander

Madhurjeet Sarghi as Manto's sister - Nasira Iqbal

Manjula Sanjay Shettigar as Hameeda

Abhinay Banker as Shoe Shop Owner

Chirag Modi as Shoe shop owner's brother

Anika Tiwari as Nighat 2

Bhanu Uday Singh as Ashok Kumar

Nancy Thakkar as Suraiyya

Feryna Wazheir as K. Asif

Raghav Dutt as Naushad

Mahabir Bhullar as Shyam's uncle

Kulbir Badesron as Shyam's aunt

Bachan Pachera as Street food vendor

Sanjay Galsar as Young man

Gurdas Mann as Sakina's father - Sirajuddin

Nilesh Parmar as Volunteer 1 - Refugee camp

Palkesh Agrawal as Volunteer 2 - Refugee camp

Shraddha Suthar as Sakina

Kalpana Gargekar as Nurse - Refugee camp

Nisarg Trivedi as Doctor - Refugee camp

Khushi Hajare as Nighat 3 (as Khushi Sidhant Hajare)

Garima Tiwari as Zakia Jalal

Inaamulhaq as Hamid Jalal

Shahnawaz Pradhan as Moderator

Rajan Thakkar as Transgender

Murzban Vatcha as Parsi neighbor

Govind Pandey as Inspector

Rajeev Bharadwaj as Naseer Anwar

Dharmendra Gupta as Arif Abdul Mateen

Neeraj Kabi as Man at the tea stall

Danish Husain as Arshad Zaidi

Vijay Varma as Ansaar Shabnam Dil

Vinod Nagpal as Bishan Singh

Nassar Abdulla as Officer - asylum