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.
स्मिता पाटिल
as Usha
Anant Nag
as Rajan
Naseeruddin Shah
as Sunil Verma
Amrish Puri
as Vinayak Kale
Amol Palekar
as Keshav Dalvi
Sulabha Deshpande
as Shanta
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
as Harilal
Baby Rukshana
as Young Usha
B.V. Karanth
as Usha's Father
Dina Pathak
as Mrs. Kale
Mohan Agashe
as Siddharth
Kusum Deshpande
as Shanta's mother