| Starring | : | Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Anu Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey, Soni Razdan, Ila Arun, Satish Kaushik, Anita Kanwar |
| Director | : | Shyam Benegal |
| Producer | : | Freni M. Variava, Lalit M. Bijlani |
| Music Dir | : | Vanraj Bhatia |
| Lyricist | : | Ila Arun |
| Singer | : | Asha Bhosle |
| Distributor | : | GVI |
| Genre | : | Classic |
The story of a whore house in a remote town which becomes the bone of contention between political and business interests. Shyam Benegal has been considered as the leading film maker of the country ever since his first feature film, ANKUR. His films have been seen and acclaimed widely not only in India but in international film festivals for the last twenty five years. The core subjects of his films have been varied in nature but mainly centered around contemperory Indian experience. Problems of development and social change appear on many levels as a continuing thread in pratically all his films.

