Nawazuddin Siddiqui
— Saadat Hasan Manto
Rasika Dugal
— Safia
Tahir Raj Bhasin
— Sunder Shyam
Feryna Wazheir
— Nargis
Javed Akhtar
— Abid Ali Abid
Chandan Roy Sanyal
— Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
Rishi Kapoor
— Film Producer
Inaamulhaq
— Hamid
Ranvir Shorey
— Ishar Singh
Rajshri Deshpande
— Ismat Chugtai
Ila Arun
— Jaddanbai
Divya Dutta
— Kulwant Kaur
Paresh Rawal
— Pimp
Tillotama Shome
— Prostitute
Shashank Arora
— Shaad Amritsari
Bhanu Uday
— Ashok Kumar
Sadat Pervez
— Krishan Chandar
Nazma Ali Shaikh
— Sarita
Ashwini Giri
— Sarita's mother
Purab Kohli
— Kifaayat
Swanand Kirkire
— Shahab
Chittaranjan Tripathy
— Anwar
Vihaan Das Maskara
— Boy on the bar
Nishith Dadhich
— Director
Sunil Kamath
— Cameraman
Priyanka Misal
— Princess
Vedieka Dutt
— Auditioning Girl 1
Mruga Umrania
— Auditioning Girl 2
Jean-Pierre Le Calvez
— Englishman at counter
Lacey Haines
— English woman at station