Sanjeev Kumar
— Mirza Sajjad Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
— Mir Roshan Ali
Amjad Khan
— Wajid Ali Shah
Shabana Azmi
— Khurshid
Farida Jalal
— Nafisa
Veena
— Queen Mother
David Abraham Cheulkar
— Munshi
Victor Banerjee
— Prime Minister
Farooq Shaikh
— Aqueel
Tom Alter
— Capt. Weston
Leela Mishra
— Hirya
Barry John
Richard Attenborough
— General Outram
Samarth Narain
— Kallu
Bhudo Advani
— Abbajani
Kamu Mukherjee
Uttamram Nagar
Khairatilal Lahori
Pradip Shankar
Ashfaq Mirza
Amrit Bhushan Gujral
Ramesh Khosla
Shaik Farid
Madan Sudan
Saswati Sen
— Dancer (uncredited)
Amitabh Bachchan
— Narrator (voice)