The Role

Overview

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.

Release date

Nov 11, 1977

Rating

6.4 / 10

Runtime

2 hours 16 minutes

Genres

Drama
Music

Cast

Smita Patil
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
No picture available
As Young Usha
B.V. Karanth
As Usha's Father
Dina Pathak
As Mrs. Kale
Mohan Agashe
As Siddharth
Kusum Deshpande
No picture available
As Shanta's mother
Rekha Sabnis
As Mrs. Yashwant Kale
Baby Bitto
No picture available
As Young Sushma
Savha Bajaj
No picture available
As
Sunila Pradhan
No picture available
As
Master Abhitab
No picture available
As Dinu
H. Lani
No picture available
As
Kiran Vairale
As Sushma Dalvi
G.M. Durrani
No picture available
As Music Teacher
Abhishek
No picture available
As
Om Puri
As
Swadesh Pal
No picture available
As
Sudarshan Dhir
No picture available
As Dance Director
Vijay Padukone
No picture available
As
Santosh Shah
No picture available
As
Benjamin Gilani
No picture available
As

Crew

Satyadev Dubey
Role: Dialogue
Vanraj Bhatia
Role: Music
Govind Nihalani
Role: Cinematography
Bhanudas Divakar
No picture available
Role: Editor
Shama Zaidi
Role: Art Direction
Lilabai Deshpande
No picture available
Role: Hairstylist
Ishwarlal G. Sharma
No picture available
Role: Production Manager
Manohar B. Ghanekar
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Prahlad Kakar
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Dayal Nihalani
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Swadesh Pal
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Hitendra Ghosh
No picture available
Role: Sound
Mohamed Husein Kalsikar
No picture available
Role: Sound Assistant
B.N. Tiwari
No picture available
Role: Sound
K. Kanti
No picture available
Role: Assistant Camera
Gyan Sahay
No picture available
Role: Assistant Camera
S.R. Sekar
No picture available
Role: Still Photographer
Kalpana Lajmi
Role: Costume Assistant
Jagdish Mohite
No picture available
Role: Assistant Editor
Ramnik Patel
No picture available
Role: Assistant Editor
Shyam Benegal
Role: Director
Girish Karnad
Role: Screenplay
Satyadev Dubey
Role: Screenplay
Shyam Benegal
Role: Screenplay
Hansa Wadkar
No picture available
Role: Novel
Hansa Wadkar
No picture available
Role: Original Film Writer
Sudarshan Dheer
No picture available
Role: Choreographer
Ravi Uppoor
No picture available
Role: Production Assistant
N. J. Kenny
No picture available
Role: Production Assistant
Deepak Prashar
No picture available
Role: Location Assistant
Santosh Sah
No picture available
Role: Location Assistant
Nira Benegal
No picture available
Role: Continuity
Majrooh Sultanpuri
No picture available
Role: Lyricist
Vasant Dev
No picture available
Role: Lyricist
Preeti Sagar
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Bhupendra Singh
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Chandru Atma
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Kumari Meena
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Firoz Dasturi
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Uttara Kelkar
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Saraswati Rane
No picture available
Role: Playback Singer
Mangesh Desai
No picture available
Role: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Kamat Ghanekar
No picture available
Role: Technical Advisor
Devi Dutt
No picture available
Role: Production Controller
Fali M. Variava
No picture available
Role: Finance
Lalit M. Bijlani
No picture available
Role: Producer
Freni M. Variava
No picture available
Role: Producer
Vishwanath Govekar
No picture available
Role: Makeup Artist

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