The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.
Cast
Shabana Azmi
Rukmini Bai
Smita Patil
Zeenat
Naseeruddin Shah
Tungrus
Amrish Puri
Darvish
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Mr. Gupta
Saeed Jaffrey
Major Agarwal
Sreela Majumdar
Phoolmani
Neena Gupta
Basanti
Gita Siddharth
Shantidevi
Aditya Bhattacharya
Sushil Agarwal
Om Puri
Ram Gopal
Harish Patel
Policeman
Soni Razdan
Nadra
Ila Arun
Kamli
Anita Kanwar
Parweena
Ratna Pathak Shah
Malti Gupta
Sunila Pradhan
Mrs. Gupta
Pankaj Kapur
Shantidevi's Assistant
K.K. Raina
Shrikant
Satish Kaushik
Councillor
Annu Kapoor
The Doctor
Khokha Mukherji
Unknown
Athar Nawaaz
Unknown
Raj Narasimha Rao
Unknown
Aslam Farshuri
Unknown
Sita Ram
Unknown
Swadesh Paul
Unknown
Milena Marques
Unknown
A. Laxmi
Unknown
Monisha Banerjee
Unknown
Aruna
Unknown
Abdul Aziz
Unknown
Azim Aziz
Unknown
Bela
Unknown
Lila Bai
Unknown
G. S. Deshmukh
Unknown
Quddus Ahmed
Unknown
Murli
Unknown
Ashay Chitre
Unknown
Crew
Uttam Singh
Music Supervision Assistant
Kersi Lord
Music Supervision Assistant
Shyam Benegal
Director, Writer
Satyadev Dubey
Writer, Dialogue
Shama Zaidi
Writer
Bhanudas Divakar
Editor
Dilip Bhopale
Assistant Editor
Jagdish Mohite
Assistant Editor
Ashok Mehta
Director of Photography, Cinematography
Dayal Nihalani
First Assistant Director
Joy Roy
Assistant Director
Dev Benegal
Assistant Director
Kalpana Lajmi
Assistant Director
Swadesh Paul
Assistant Director
Silloo Fali Variava
Executive Producer
Bhishum M. J. Bijlani
Executive Producer
Freni M. Variava
Producer
Lalit M. Bijlani
Producer
Quddus Ahmed
Production Assistant
M. K. Shah
Production Assistant
Deepak
Production Assistant
Jethu Maliramani
Production Assistant
Hemant Bhagat
Production Assistant
Raj Pius
Production Controller
Hari Roy
Assistant Camera
Raj Khatri
Assistant Camera
Manish Bhatt
Assistant Camera
Saba Zaidi
Costume Designer
Monisha Banerjee
Assistant Costume Designer
Milena Marques
Assistant Costume Designer
John
Assistant Costume Designer
Mallika Samuel
Hairdresser
Miriam Samuel
Hairdresser
Lila Bai
Hairdresser
Bela
Hairdresser
Ajit Vengurlekar
Assistant Makeup Artist
V. Govekar
Makeup Artist
Samir Chandra
Assistant Art Director
Paltu Sharma
Assistant Art Director
Vijay Bhope
Assistant Sound Designer
M. H. Kalsikar
Assistant Sound Designer
Mangesh Desai
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Hitendra Ghosh
Sound
Vanraj Bhatia
Music
Sarwar Danda
Lyricist
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Lyricist
Ila Arun
Lyricist
Makhoom Mohiuddin
Lyricist
Mir Taqi Mir
Lyricist
S.R. Shekhar
Still Photographer
K.B. Kamat
Technical Advisor
Sudarshan Dheer
Choreographer
Priti Sagar
Playback Singer
Asha Bhosle
Playback Singer
M. A. Bhatia
Production Executive
Ghulam Abbas
Original Story
Nitish Roy
Art Direction
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