Top Billed Cast

1. 

   Nawazuddin Siddiqui

   Saadat Hasan Manto

2. 

   Rasika Dugal

   Safia

3. 

   Tahir Raj Bhasin

   Sunder Shyam

4. 

   Feryna Wazheir

   Nargis

5. 

   Javed Akhtar

   Abid Ali Abid

6. 

   Chandan Roy Sanyal

   Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi

7. 

   Rishi Kapoor

   Film Producer

8. 

   Inaamulhaq

   Hamid

9. 

   Ranvir Shorey

   Ishar Singh

10. 

    Rajshri Deshpande

    Ismat Chugtai

11. 

    Ila Arun

    Jaddanbai

12. 

    Divya Dutta

    Kulwant Kaur

13. 

    Paresh Rawal

    Pimp

14. 

    Tillotama Shome

    Prostitute

15. 

    Shashank Arora

    Shaad Amritsari

16. 

    Bhanu Uday

    Ashok Kumar

17. 

    Sadat Pervez

    Krishan Chandar

18. 

    Nazma Ali Shaikh

    Sarita

19. 

    Ashwini Giri

    Sarita's mother

20. 

    Purab Kohli

    Kifaayat

21. 

    Swanand Kirkire

    Shahab

22. 

    Chittaranjan Tripathy

    Anwar

23. 

    Vihaan Das Maskara

    Boy on the bar

24. 

    Nishith Dadhich

    Director

25. 

    Sunil Kamath

    Cameraman

26. 

    Priyanka Misal

    Princess

27. 

    Vedieka Dutt

    Auditioning Girl 1

28. 

    Mruga Umrania

    Auditioning Girl 2

29. 

    Jean-Pierre Le Calvez

    Englishman at counter

30. 

    Lacey Haines

    English woman at station

31. 

    Zorawar Shukla

    Anglo-Indian Passenger

32. 

    Rusi Mistry

    Irani Cafe Owner

33. 

    Takesh Singh

    Rajindar Singh Bedi

34. 

    Sadat Shamsi

    Krishan Chander

35. 

    Madhurjeet Sarghi

    Manto's sister - Nasira Iqbal

36. 

    Manjula Sanjay Shettigar

    Hameeda

37. 

    Abhinay Banker

    Shoe Shop Owner

38. 

    Chirag Modi

    Shoe shop owner's brother

39. 

    Anika Tiwari

    Nighat 2

40. 

    Bhanu Uday Singh

    Ashok Kumar

41. 

    Nancy Thakkar

    Suraiyya

42. 

    Feryna Wazheir

    K. Asif

43. 

    Raghav Dutt

    Naushad

44. 

    Mahabir Bhullar

    Shyam's uncle

45. 

    Kulbir Badesron

    Shyam's aunt

46. 

    Bachan Pachera

    Street food vendor

47. 

    Sanjay Galsar

    Young man

48. 

    Gurdas Mann

    Sakina's father - Sirajuddin

49. 

    Nilesh Parmar

    Volunteer 1 - Refugee camp

50. 

    Palkesh Agrawal

    Volunteer 2 - Refugee camp

51. 

    Shraddha Suthar

    Sakina

52. 

    Kalpana Gargekar

    Nurse - Refugee camp

53. 

    Nisarg Trivedi

    Doctor - Refugee camp

54. 

    Khushi Hajare

    Nighat 3 (as Khushi Sidhant Hajare)

55. 

    Garima Tiwari

    Zakia Jalal

56. 

    Inaamulhaq

    Hamid Jalal

57. 

    Shahnawaz Pradhan

    Moderator

58. 

    Rajan Thakkar

    Transgender

59. 

    Murzban Vatcha

    Parsi neighbor

60. 

    Govind Pandey

    Inspector

61. 

    Rajeev Bharadwaj

    Naseer Anwar

62. 

    Dharmendra Gupta

    Arif Abdul Mateen

63. 

    Neeraj Kabi

    Man at the tea stall

64. 

    Danish Husain

    Arshad Zaidi

65. 

    Vijay Varma

    Ansaar Shabnam Dil

66. 

    Vinod Nagpal

    Bishan Singh

67. 

    Nassar Abdulla

    Officer - asylum