• 
  Ismail Merchant

  regizor

• 
  Shashi Kapoor

  Nur
• 
  Tinnu Anand

  Murad
• 
  Sushma Seth

  Safiya Begum
• 
  Amjad Khan

  Babu's Musician
• 
  Riju Bajaj

  Young Poet
• 
  Nayeem Hafizka

  Young Poet
• 
  Shabana Azmi

  Imtiaz Begum

• 
  Sagar Arya

  Chiku
• 
  Maza Bi

  Safiya's Attendant
• 
  Neena Gupta

  Sarla
• 
  Yusuf Khurram

  Young Poet
• 
  Alakh Nandan

  Trivedi
• 
  Om Puri

  Deven
• 
  Prayag Raj

  Jain

• 
  Parikshat Sahni

  Siddiqui (as Ajay Sahni)
• 
  Veerendra Saxena

  Young Poet

• 
  Shankar Mahadevan

  music department
• 
  Donald Rosenfeld

  producător
• 
  John Hayward (I)

  sound department
• 
  Nicolas Le Messurier

  sound department