
Casts

Naseeruddin Shah
as Mirza Ghalib

Tanvi Azmi
as Umrao Begum

Neena Gupta
as Nawaab Jaan

Shafi Inamdar
as Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq (Ustad Zauq)

Parikshat Sahni
as Nawab Shams-ud-din

Javed Khan
as Fakir

Sudhir Dalvi
as Bahadur Shah Zafar

Amjad Khan
as Kali Miyan