"A cabaret dancer who was raised in a brothel sets out to find her biological mother."
Shah Rukh Khan
as Karan D. Singh
Divya Bharti
as Laila / Sitara
Jeetendra
as Prince Arjun Singh
Mithun Chakraborty
as Sunil (Barkha's boyfriend)
Dimple Kapadia
as Barkha
Amrita Singh
as Rajlaxmi A. Singh
Sonu Walia
as Salma A. Baig
Kabir Bedi
as Rai Bahadur Digvijay Singh
Raza Murad
as Goverdhan Das
Satyendra Kapoor
as Rajlaxmi's dad
Amarjeet Mukherjee
as Chandu
Nassar Abdulla
as Akram Allahabadi Baig
Beena Banerjee
as Shobha (Karan's mother)
Sushma Seth
as Mrs. Baig
Sulabha Deshpande
as Lady at the Shantidevi Orphanage
Farida Jalal
as Razia
Pankaj Udhas
as
Renu Dhariwal
as Karan's sister
Mohan Agashe
as Prem (pimp)
Rammohan Sharma
as Mr. Mathur
Shiva Rindani
as Kidnapper
Bob Christo
as Goverdhan's man
Bhushan Tiwari
as Laila's patron
Hema Malini
Director
Iqbal Durrani
Dialogue
Imtiaz Hussain
Screenplay
Story
Suraj Sanim
Suresh Wadkar
Playback Singer
Sadhana Sargam
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Padmini Kolhapure
Sudesh Bhosle
Producer
Peter Pereira
Director of Photography
Vijay S Jadhav
Second Assistant Director
Deval Raiji
Assistant Director
Mohan Raghavan
Executive Producer
R K Chakravarti
Markand Mehta
Production Manager
Prabha Raghavan
Production Controller
Arun Mistry
Camera Operator
Tapan Tushar Basu
Anand Chitragupth
Original Music Composer
Milind Chitragupth
Hitendra Ghosh
Location Sound Recordist
Suresh Kathuria
Bijon Das Gupta
Art Direction
Ravi Sanyal
Assistant Art Director
Sanjay Dhabade
B.H. Tharun Kumar
Choreographer
Bhushan Lakandri
Brian Jacobs
Tara Prasad
Bernadine Britto
Costume Design
Xerxes Bathena
Neeta Lulla
V. N. Mayekar
Editor
Narendra Jadhav
Makeup Artist
Ravi Indulkar
A Mansoor
Stunt Coordinator
