"A cabaret dancer who was raised in a brothel sets out to find her biological mother."
Shah Rukh Khan
as Karan D. Singh
Divya Bharti
as Laila / Sitara
Jeetendra
as Prince Arjun Singh
Mithun Chakraborty
as Sunil (Barkha's boyfriend)
Dimple Kapadia
as Barkha
Amrita Singh
as Rajlaxmi A. Singh
Sonu Walia
as Salma A. Baig
Kabir Bedi
as Rai Bahadur Digvijay Singh
Raza Murad
as Goverdhan Das
Satyendra Kapoor
as Rajlaxmi's dad
Amarjeet Mukherjee
as Chandu
Nassar Abdulla
as Akram Allahabadi Baig
Beena Banerjee
as Shobha (Karan's mother)
Sushma Seth
as Mrs. Baig
Sulabha Deshpande
as Lady at the Shantidevi Orphanage
Farida Jalal
as Razia
Pankaj Udhas
as
Renu Dhariwal
as Karan's sister
Mohan Agashe
as Prem (pimp)
Rammohan Sharma
as Mr. Mathur
Shiva Rindani
as Kidnapper
Bob Christo
as Goverdhan's man
Bhushan Tiwari
as Laila's patron
Hema Malini
Director
Imtiaz Hussain
Story
Screenplay
Iqbal Durrani
Dialogue
Suraj Sanim
Sadhana Sargam
Playback Singer
Padmini Kolhapure
Suresh Wadkar
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Sudesh Bhosle
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Producer
Markand Mehta
Production Manager
Anand Chitragupth
Original Music Composer
Ravi Indulkar
Makeup Artist
A Mansoor
Stunt Coordinator
Hitendra Ghosh
Location Sound Recordist
Bijon Das Gupta
Art Direction
Bernadine Britto
Costume Design
Brian Jacobs
Choreographer
Xerxes Bathena
V. N. Mayekar
Editor
R K Chakravarti
Executive Producer
Bhushan Lakandri
Suresh Kathuria
Ravi Sanyal
Assistant Art Director
Tara Prasad
Arun Mistry
Camera Operator
Vijay S Jadhav
Second Assistant Director
Milind Chitragupth
Sanjay Dhabade
Narendra Jadhav
B.H. Tharun Kumar
Neeta Lulla
Peter Pereira
Director of Photography
Tapan Tushar Basu
Mohan Raghavan
Deval Raiji
Assistant Director
Prabha Raghavan
Production Controller
