बहु बेगम

Meena Kumari

— Zeenat Jahan Begum

Pradeep Kumar

— Yusuf

Ashok Kumar

— Nawab Sikander Mirza

Johnny Walker

— Achchan

Lalita Pawar

— Naziran Bai

Kumari Naaz

— Suraiya (as Naaz)

Helen

— Courtesan

D.K. Sapru

— Nawab Mirza Sultan (as Sapru)

Balam

— Mir Qurban Ali

Mirza

Mushraf

Altaf

Qamar

Durrani

Indira Bansal

— Shafugupta Begum (as Indra Bansal)

Rajan Haksar

— Nawab Pyare Miya

Shahid Bijnori

Leela Mishra

— Kariban Bua (uncredited)

Kedarnath Saigal

— In the crowd (uncredited)