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)