
Shyam Benegal
Director

Ghazala (Shabana Azmi) has been married to Munirmiya (Srivallabh Vyas) for several years, and has given birth to a daughter, Salma (Rajeshwari Sachdev) Munir is unhappy that Ghazala has been unable to bear him any sons, and is forced to face his abuse, and then is subsequently thrown out of the house, in order to make way for him to marry again; Hasina (Surekha Sigri-Rege) is Ghazala's mom, married at a very young age, to an older man, faces the risk of cancer of the uterus; Educated, Arrogant and god-fearing Afsana (Nandita Das) has three children, and is upset with her spouse, Khurshid (Rajit Kapur), Hasina's son, for undergoing a vasectomy, and leaves him; Najma (Alka Trivedi) is an uneducated housewife, having given birth to seven children, five of whom have died so far due to malnutrition, and is the wife of Khaleej, Hasina's older son; Salma is the daughter of Ghazala, who is expected to marry at an early age, to a much older man, as there is no point in her undergoing further education, mainly due to her dad abandoning her.
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Shyam Benegal
Director

Shabana Azmi
Ghazala

Rajit Kapoor
Khurshid

Surekha Sikri
Hasina

Nandita Das
Afsana
Meghna Kothari
Young Hasina

Seema Pahwa
Rampyari

Lalit Tiwari
Khaleej

Shri Vallabh Vyas
Munirmiya

Rajeshwari Sachdev
Salma
Aalambayan Siddharth
Irffan
Alka Trivedi
Najma
Shama Zaidi
Writer
Priya Chandrasekar
Writer