Riven

Shabana Azmi

as Rukmini Bai

Smita Patil

as Zeenat

Naseeruddin Shah

as Tungrus

Amrish Puri

as Darvish

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

as Mr. Gupta

Saeed Jaffrey

as Major Agarwal

Sreela Majumdar

as Phoolmani

Neena Gupta

as Basanti

Gita Siddharth

as Shantidevi

Aditya Bhattacharya

as Sushil Agarwal

Om Puri

as Ram Gopal

Harish Patel

as Policeman

Soni Razdan

as Nadra

Ila Arun

as Kamli

Anita Kanwar

as Parweena

Ratna Pathak Shah

as Malti Gupta

Sunila Pradhan

as Mrs. Gupta

Pankaj Kapur

as Shantidevi's Assistant

K.K. Raina

as Shrikant

Satish Kaushik

as Councillor

Annu Kapoor

as The Doctor

Khokha Mukherji

as

Athar Nawaaz

as

Raj Narasimha Rao

as

Aslam Farshuri

as

Sita Ram

as

Swadesh Paul

as

Milena Marques

as

A. Laxmi

as

Monisha Banerjee

as

Aruna

as

Abdul Aziz

as

Azim Aziz

as

Bela

as

Lila Bai

as

G. S. Deshmukh

as

Quddus Ahmed

as

Murli

as

Ashay Chitre

as

Shyam Benegal

Director

Jethu Maliramani

Production Assistant

Raj Pius

Production Controller

Vijay Bhope

Assistant Sound Designer

Shyam Benegal

Writer

Mir Taqi Mir

Lyricist

Hari Roy

Assistant Camera

Manish Bhatt

Assistant Camera

Samir Chandra

Assistant Art Director

V. Govekar

Makeup Artist

Ajit Vengurlekar

Assistant Makeup Artist

K.B. Kamat

Technical Advisor

Dilip Bhopale

Assistant Editor

Paltu Sharma

Assistant Art Director

Bahadur Shah Zafar

Lyricist

Ghulam Abbas

Original Story

John

Assistant Costume Designer

M. K. Shah

Production Assistant

Uttam Singh

Music Supervision Assistant

Jagdish Mohite

Assistant Editor

Monisha Banerjee

Assistant Costume Designer

Bela

Hairdresser

Deepak

Production Assistant

Hemant Bhagat

Production Assistant

Swadesh Paul

Assistant Director

Sudarshan Dheer

Choreographer

Milena Marques

Assistant Costume Designer

Lila Bai

Hairdresser

Kalpana Lajmi

Assistant Director

Asha Bhosle

Playback Singer

Raj Khatri

Assistant Camera

Kersi Lord

Music Supervision Assistant

Mallika Samuel

Hairdresser

Quddus Ahmed

Production Assistant

Joy Roy

Assistant Director

Makhoom Mohiuddin

Lyricist

Silloo Fali Variava

Executive Producer

Bhishum M. J. Bijlani

Executive Producer

Miriam Samuel

Hairdresser

Mangesh Desai

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Hitendra Ghosh

Sound

Vanraj Bhatia

Music

Dev Benegal

Assistant Director

Saba Zaidi

Costume Designer

Bhanudas Divakar

Editor

M. H. Kalsikar

Assistant Sound Designer

Satyadev Dubey

Dialogue

Dayal Nihalani

First Assistant Director

Nitish Roy

Art Direction

M. A. Bhatia

Production Executive

Sarwar Danda

Lyricist

Ila Arun

Lyricist

Priti Sagar

Playback Singer

Ashok Mehta

Director of Photography

S.R. Shekhar

Still Photographer

Freni M. Variava

Producer

Ashok Mehta

Cinematography

Lalit M. Bijlani

Producer

Shama Zaidi

Writer

Satyadev Dubey

Writer