Bharat Ek Khoj (1988) | Full Cast

Shyam Benegal

DIRECTOR

Roshan Seth

Jawaharlal Nehru

Om Puri

Narrator

Ravi Jhankal

Balram

Anang Desai

Appar

K.K. Raina

Radhagupta

Pankaj Berry

Ab'ul Fazal

Ila Arun

Gangamma

Vijay Kashyap

Chand Bardai

Lalit Tiwari

Arjun

Salim Ghouse

Ramaraya

John Holyer

Wellesly

Devendra Malhotra

Ashwalayan

Pallavi Joshi

Ratna

Anjan Srivastav

Dhanananda

Irrfan Khan

Bade Khan

Ahmed Khan

Aqil Khan

Ravi Khemu

Anand

Virendra Razdan

Bahadur Shah Zafar

Tom Alter

Chairman

Virendra Saxena

Birbal

Achyut Potdar

Sukhvihara

Sudhir Kulkarni

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Mahendra Raghuvanshi

Bajirao

Aparajita Krishna

Devi

Lucky Ali

Tissa

Adil Rana

Chandal

Ved Thappar

Shahbaz Khan

Harish Patel

Buddhist Monk

Surendra Sharma

Dilawar Khan

Rakesh Shrivastav

A Shudra

Surendra Pal

Man Singh

Akhilendra Mishra

Councillor

Mansi Upadhyay

Lingamma

Mushtaq Khan

Asaf Khan

Siraz Ahmed Khan

Gandhardittan

Sohaila Kapur

Roshan Ara

Mohan Gokhale

Vishnu Pant

Vishnu Sharma

Dronacharya

Murlidhar

Soldier-3

Piyush Mishra

Soldier-4

Deepraj Rana

Dwarpala

Subrata Bose

Ghosh (Rash Behari Ghosh)

Ashok Banthia

Kishorichandra Mitra

Shankar Sachdev

Commander

Aparajita

Khanzadi

Aashish Duggal

Chandrarao More

Poonam Jha

Bindusara's Wife

Naseeruddin Shah

Shivaji

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Akbar

Ranjana Gaur

Malati

Alopi Verma

Councillors

Satish Kaushik

Judge

Yusuf Khurram

Councillors

Akhil Mishra

Jain Muni

Rajendra Mehra

Ali Naqi

Ravindra Sathe

Singer

Khemendra Ganjoo

Ahmed Khwaja

K.K. Raghuvanshi

Ambassador

Abha Mishra

ACTOR

Somchandra Dubey

ACTOR

Shabana Azmi

Rangamma

Mita Vashisht

Suvasini

Rana Jung Bahadur

Azeez Koka

Arjun Raina

Ali Adil Shah

Anand Mishra

Devendranath Tagore

Brian Canavan

Cornwallis

Ratna Pathak Shah

Rani of Jhansi

Alok Nath

Vivekananda

Rajesh Vivek

Kapalik Satyasoma

Surendra Sharma

Messenger

Ravi Kemmu

Sant Kabir

Salim Shah

Rajendralal Mitra

Inayatullah Kantroo

Virochaka

Arun Verma

Sthavaraka

Prabha Mathur

Priyamvada

S.P. Dubey

Mahendrabhatta

Navtej Hundal

Sarja

Nafisa Sharma

Kausalya

Sushil Parashar

ACTOR

Ram Murthy

ACTOR

Vijay Arora

Jehangir

Vipin Sharma

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Nisha Singh

Sanyukta

Masood Akhtar

Danishmand Khan

Surekha Sikri

Jahan Ara

Lubna Salim

Chanda

Rajendra Gupta

Raja Nandkumar

Sudhir Dalvi

Shahjahan

Irshad Hashmi

Agyat Baba

Satyadev Dubey

Chanakya

Savita Bajaj

Venkamma

Dharmesh Tiwari

Qutbuddin

S.M. Zaheer

Hamid Ali

Vaishali Dandekar

Dancer

Sunila Pradhan

Jijabai

Charan Saluja

Tapidas

Rakesh Dhar

Kovalan

Rakesh Bidua

Shivappa

Ashish Kotwal

Pashupata

Dhruv Ghanekar

Nachiketa

Rajshri Pingle

Maid

Narayan Pati

Radhakant

Narayan Bhandari

Shaista Khan

S.C. Makhija

Mahadji Shinde

Vijayan Nair

Pedda Tirumala

Ashutosh Pathak

Swami

Sadashiv Amrapurkar

Mahatma Phule

Teejan Bai

Self

Shubhangi Gokhale

Savitri

Anuradha Tarafdar

Dhanvati

Utkarsh Mazumdar

Sudakka

Shreechand Makhija

Vasudatt

Madhav Achwal

Govind Ranade

Sujata Mehta

Draupadi

Raja Bundela

Sanjay

Puneet Issar

Rana Pratap

Kishore Kadam

Wagle

Kapil Kumar

Chitnavis

Arun Bakshi

Atga Khan

P. Dasgupta

Surendranath Banerjee

Master Javed

Durjay

Neeraj Vora

Satyaki

Sanjiv Virmani

Councillors

Narendra Gupta

Digha

Champak Banerjee

Kinjalka

Jeetendra Shastri

ACTOR

Sanjeev Seth

ACTOR

Sujata Kaango

ACTOR

Gagan Gupta

ACTOR

Haneef Zahoor

ACTOR

Shantanu Chhaparia

ACTOR

Rajeev Mehra

ACTOR

Shankar Iyer

ACTOR

Manoj Shrivastav

ACTOR

Rajneesh

ACTOR

Pragna

ACTOR

Tandon

ACTOR

Ramlal Gupta

ACTOR

Probir

ACTOR

Rakesh Pandey

ACTOR

Murari

ACTOR

Abhishek

ACTOR

Kanika Vajpai

ACTOR

Gautam Siddharth

ACTOR

Veena Malhotra

ACTOR

Amrish Puri

Raza Khan

Ashutosh Gowariker

Buddha

Deven Bhojani

Villager

Jalal Agha

Robert Clive

Ajit Vachani

Tarachand

Pramod Moutho

Brahmin

Urmila Bhatt

Mother

Suresh Bhagwat

Buddhist Monk

Vinod Rathod

Tansen

Jaspal Sandhu

Sushima

Vishal Singh

Najm-ud-daulah

Seema Kelkar

Padmavati

Sulakshana Khatri

Shurpanakha

Kanchan Gharpure

Priyangumanjari

Anil Saxena

Raj Narain

Meenakshi Thakur

Ambika

Amrik Gill

Mehar

Bavna Murkatiwala

Radhamma

Rekha Parmar

Mother

Idries Malik

Charudatta

Mohini Sharma

Begum Syed Ahmed Khan

Sunita Rao

Vasantmala

Prabhakar Patankar

Nana Phadnavis

Harjeet

Hyder Ali

Declan Hill

Stuart

Sunil Advani

David Hare

Mohan Maharishi

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Vasant Soman

Bana Bhatta

Rekha Jayakar

Devandi

Shiv Sharma

Murad

Sami Usman

Ghulam Ali

Anandi

Madhavi

Vijay Rani Nair

Varadamba

Chandrakant Thakkar

ADM Mr Kakkar

Bhupendra Sandhu

Javara

Raj Sinha

Chinna Tirumala

O.N. Aima

Mir Jumla

Jean Maneckjee

Admiral Saldana

Padmanabhan

Seleucus

Mala Kumar

Anusuya

Ritesh Pandey

Valkhanasa

Adarsh Tandon

Mirza Mahmood

Hemendra Bhatia

Acharya

Kanwaldeep Singh

Interpreter

Pramod Razdan

Sarathi

Salim Arif

Firdausi

Mohammed Ishaq

Malik Jeevan

Chandra Mohan

Rajyavardhan

Narain Pati

Mahendra Gupta

Zarvan Patel

Alexander

Ajay Kumar

Achyutdevaraya

Ajit Karkare

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