The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.
Roopa Ganguly
as Geeta
Pankaj Kapur
as Sudhakar
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
as Nirmala
Mrinal Kulkarni
as Charu
Harshada Desai
as Nirmala (young)
Kavita Thakur
as Kamla
Supriya Pathak
as Anju
Irrfan Khan
as Ajit
Ashutosh Gowariker
as Deepak
Devendra Khandelwal
as Masterji
Jaya Mathur
as Chameli
Akhil Mishra
as Prakash
