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.
Language
Hindi
Release Date
February 25, 1983
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
Athar Nawaaz
Raj Narasimha Rao
Aslam Farshuri
Sita Ram
Swadesh Paul
Milena Marques
A. Laxmi
Monisha Banerjee
Aruna
Abdul Aziz
Azim Aziz
Bela
Lila Bai
G. S. Deshmukh
Quddus Ahmed
Murli
Ashay Chitre
Show Full Crew
Directing
Shyam Benegal
Director
Kalpana Lajmi
Assistant Director
Dev Benegal
Assistant Director
Dayal Nihalani
First Assistant Director
Swadesh Paul
Assistant Director
Joy Roy
Assistant Director
Writing
Ila Arun
Lyricist
Shyam Benegal
Writer
Shama Zaidi
Writer
Satyadev Dubey
Writer
Satyadev Dubey
Dialogue
Mir Taqi Mir
Lyricist
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Lyricist
Makhoom Mohiuddin
Lyricist
Sarwar Danda
Lyricist
Ghulam Abbas
Original Story
Production
Lalit M. Bijlani
Producer
Freni M. Variava
Producer
Jethu Maliramani
Production Assistant
Quddus Ahmed
Production Assistant
M. K. Shah
Production Assistant
Deepak
Production Assistant
Hemant Bhagat
Production Assistant
M. A. Bhatia
Production Executive
Silloo Fali Variava
Executive Producer
Bhishum M. J. Bijlani
Executive Producer
Crew
Ashok Mehta
Cinematography
Raj Pius
Production Controller
Sudarshan Dheer
Choreographer
K.B. Kamat
Technical Advisor
Camera
Ashok Mehta
Director of Photography
Hari Roy
Assistant Camera
Manish Bhatt
Assistant Camera
Raj Khatri
Assistant Camera
S.R. Shekhar
Still Photographer
Editing
Sound
Asha Bhosle
Playback Singer
Vanraj Bhatia
Music
Mangesh Desai
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Vijay Bhope
Assistant Sound Designer
Uttam Singh
Music Supervision Assistant
Hitendra Ghosh
Sound
Kersi Lord
Music Supervision Assistant
Priti Sagar
Playback Singer
M. H. Kalsikar
Assistant Sound Designer
Art
Costume & Make-Up
Miriam Samuel
Hairdresser
Monisha Banerjee
Assistant Costume Designer
Milena Marques
Assistant Costume Designer
John
Assistant Costume Designer
Ajit Vengurlekar
Assistant Makeup Artist
V. Govekar
Makeup Artist
Bela
Hairdresser
Mallika Samuel
Hairdresser
Lila Bai
Hairdresser
Saba Zaidi
Costume Designer