A girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.
3.2 / 5
Smita Patil
Usha
Anant Nag
Rajan
Naseeruddin Shah
Sunil Verma
Amrish Puri
Vinayak Kale
Amol Palekar
Keshav Dalvi
Sulabha Deshpande
Shanta
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Harilal
Baby Rukshana
Young Usha
B.V. Karanth
Usha's Father
Dina Pathak
Mrs. Kale
Mohan Agashe
Siddharth
Kusum Deshpande
Shanta's mother
Rekha Sabnis
Mrs. Yashwant Kale
Baby Bitto
Young Sushma
Savha Bajaj
Sunila Pradhan
Master Abhitab
Dinu
H. Lani
Kiran Vairale
Sushma Dalvi
G.M. Durrani
Music Teacher
Abhishek
Om Puri
Swadesh Pal
Sudarshan Dhir
Dance Director
Vijay Padukone
Santosh Shah
Benjamin Gilani
Bhanudas Divakar
Editor
Mohamed Husein Kalsikar
Sound Assistant
Gyan Sahay
Assistant Camera
K. Kanti
B.N. Tiwari
Sound
Ramnik Patel
Assistant Editor
Hitendra Ghosh
Vanraj Bhatia
Music
Govind Nihalani
Cinematography
Ishwarlal G. Sharma
Production Manager
Manohar B. Ghanekar
Assistant Director
Kalpana Lajmi
Costume Assistant
Dayal Nihalani
Shama Zaidi
Art Direction
Lilabai Deshpande
Hairstylist
Satyadev Dubey
Dialogue
Jagdish Mohite
S.R. Sekar
Still Photographer
Prahlad Kakar
Screenplay
Girish Karnad
Shyam Benegal
Director
Hansa Wadkar
Original Film Writer
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Lyricist
Chandru Atma
Playback Singer
Firoz Dasturi
Deepak Prashar
Location Assistant
Lalit M. Bijlani
Producer
Santosh Sah
Fali M. Variava
Finance
Saraswati Rane
Kamat Ghanekar
Technical Advisor
Nira Benegal
Continuity
N. J. Kenny
Production Assistant
Novel
Sudarshan Dheer
Choreographer
Vasant Dev
Preeti Sagar
Mangesh Desai
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ravi Uppoor
Bhupendra Singh
Kumari Meena
Devi Dutt
Production Controller
Freni M. Variava
Uttara Kelkar
Vishwanath Govekar
Makeup Artist
